Psalm 64 Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Protection from Evildoers

For the choir director. A psalm of David.

64 God, hear my voice when I am in anguish.^(A)
Protect my life from the terror of the enemy.^(B)
²Hide me from the scheming of wicked people,^(C)
from the mob of evildoers,^(D)
³who sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim bitter words like arrows,^(E)
⁴shooting from concealed places at the blameless.
They shoot at him suddenly and are not afraid.^(F)
⁵They adopt^[a] an evil plan;
they talk about hiding traps and say,
‘Who will see them? ’^[b]^(G)
⁶They devise crimes and say,
‘We have perfected a secret plan.’^(H)
The inner man and the heart are mysterious.^(I)

⁷But God will shoot them with arrows;
suddenly, they will be wounded.^(J)
⁸They will be made to stumble;
their own tongues work against them.
All who see them will shake their heads.^(K)
⁹Then everyone will fear
and will tell about God’s work,
for they will understand what he has done.^(L)

¹⁰The righteous one rejoices in the Lord
and takes refuge in him;
all those who are upright in heart
will offer praise.^(M)

Footnotes

64:5 Or They strengthen themselves with
64:5 Or it

Cross references

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (CSBA)