| [1]To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my  voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest  my life,
          [2]Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the  tumult of workers of iniquity.
          [3]Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their  arrow -- a bitter word.
          [4]To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot  him, and fear not.
          [5]They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount  of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'
          [6]They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching  search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep.
          [7]And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been  their wounds,
          [8]And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own  tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
          [9]And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed  they have considered wisely.
          [10]The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in  Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart! |