New American Standard Bible 1995

Psalms 64

Prayer for Deliverance from Secret Enemies.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

1Hear my voice, O God, in 1my 2complaint; 3Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.2Hide me from the 4secret counsel of evildoers, From the tumult of 5those who do iniquity,3Who 6have sharpened their tongue like a sword. They 7aimed bitter speech as their arrow,4To 8shoot 9from concealment at the blameless; Suddenly they shoot at him, and 10do not fear.5They 11hold fast to themselves an evil purpose; They 12talk of 13laying snares secretly; They say, “14Who can see them?”6They 15devise injustices, saying, “We are 16ready with a well-conceived plot”; For the 17 18inward thought and the heart of a man are 19deep.

7But 20God 21will shoot at them with an arrow; Suddenly 22they will be wounded.8So 23they 24will 25make him stumble; 26Their own tongue is against them; All who see them will 27shake the head.9Then all men 28will 29fear, And they 30will 31declare the work of God, And 32will consider 33what He has done.10The righteous man will be 34glad in the Lord and will 35take refuge in Him; And all the upright in heart will glory.

Notes

1. Psalms 64:1 Ps 55:2 ↩
2. Psalms 64:1 Or concern ↩
3. Psalms 64:1 Ps 140:1 ↩
4. Psalms 64:2 Ps 56:6 ↩
5. Psalms 64:2 Ps 59:2 ↩
6. Psalms 64:3 Ps 140:3 ↩
7. Psalms 64:3 Ps 58:7 ↩
8. Psalms 64:4 Ps 10:8; 11:2 ↩
9. Psalms 64:4 Lit in ↩
10. Psalms 64:4 Ps 55:19 ↩
11. Psalms 64:5 Lit make firm ↩
12. Psalms 64:5 Lit tell of ↩
13. Psalms 64:5 Ps 140:5 ↩
14. Psalms 64:5 Job 22:13; Ps 10:11 ↩
15. Psalms 64:6 Or search out ↩
16. Psalms 64:6 Lit complete ↩
17. Psalms 64:6 Or inward part ↩
18. Psalms 64:6 Ps 49:11 ↩
19. Psalms 64:6 Or unsearchable ↩
20. Psalms 64:7 Ps 7:12, 13 ↩
21. Psalms 64:7 Or shot ↩
22. Psalms 64:7 Or they were wounded; lit their wounds occurred ↩
23. Psalms 64:8 Or they make their tongue a stumbling for themselves ↩
24. Psalms 64:8 Or made ↩
25. Psalms 64:8 Ps 9:3 ↩
26. Psalms 64:8 Prov 12:13; 18:7 ↩
27. Psalms 64:8 Ps 22:7; 44:14; Jer 18:16; 48:27; Lam 2:15 ↩
28. Psalms 64:9 Or feared ↩
29. Psalms 64:9 Ps 40:3 ↩
30. Psalms 64:9 Or declared ↩
31. Psalms 64:9 Jer 51:10 ↩
32. Psalms 64:9 Or considered ↩
33. Psalms 64:9 Lit His work ↩
34. Psalms 64:10 Job 22:19; Ps 32:11 ↩
35. Psalms 64:10 Ps 11:1; 25:20 ↩

Prayer for Deliverance from Secret Enemies.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

Notes

Commentaries on Psalms 64