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Suddenly, from their hiding places, they let their arrows fly.
    They shoot to kill innocent people.
They encourage each other to do wrong.
    They talk about setting traps and say, “No one will see them here!
No one will discover our crime.
    We have the perfect plan!”
Yes, people can be very tricky and hard to understand.

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They shoot from ambush at the innocent;(A)
    they shoot suddenly, without fear.(B)

They encourage each other in evil plans,
    they talk about hiding their snares;(C)
    they say, “Who will see it[a]?”(D)
They plot injustice and say,
    “We have devised a perfect plan!”
    Surely the human mind and heart are cunning.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 64:5 Or us