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Psalm 64 · Book Two · David

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

For the choirmaster

About this psalm

A psalm about damage done entirely by speech. They whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words. The plotting is secret and confident — who shall see them? The turn comes when God shoots back with an arrow of his own, and the thing they said in private becomes the thing everybody tells.

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¹Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer:preserve my life from fear of the enemy.²Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked;from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:³Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:⁴That they may shoot in secret at the perfect:suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.⁵They encourage themselves in an evil matter:they commune of laying snares privily;they say, Who shall see them?⁶They search out iniquities;they accomplish a diligent search:both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.⁷But God shall shoot at them with an arrow;suddenly shall they be wounded.⁸So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves:all that see them shall flee away.⁹And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God;for they shall wisely consider of his doing.¹⁰The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him;and all the upright in heart shall glory.

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