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| [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, |
[1]Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. |
| [2]Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity. |
[2]Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, and from the rage of the workers of iniquity. |
| [3]Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word. |
[3]Which have whet their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrows bitter words. |
| [4]To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not. |
[4]To shoot at the upright in secret: they shoot at him suddenly, 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?' |
[5]They encourage themselves in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares privily, and say, Who shall see them? |
| [6]They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep. |
[6]They have sought out iniquities, and have accomplished that which they sought out, even every one his secret thoughts, and the depth of his heart. |
| [7]And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds, |
[7]But God will shoot an arrow at them suddenly: their strokes shall be at once. |
| [8]And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away. |
[8]They shall cause their own tongue to fall upon them: and whosoever shall see them, shall flee away. |
| [9]And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely. |
[9]And all men shall see it, and declare the work of God, and they shall understand, what he hath wrought. |
| [10]The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart! |
[10]But the righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and trust in him: and all that are upright of heart, shall rejoice. |