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For the choir director: A psalm of David.
O God, listen to my complaint.
Protect my life from my enemies’ threats.
O God, listen to my complaint.
Protect my life from my enemies’ threats.
Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Hide me from the plots of this evil mob,
from this gang of wrongdoers.
from this gang of wrongdoers.
Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,
From the tumult of those who do iniquity,
From the tumult of those who do iniquity,
They sharpen their tongues like swords
and aim their bitter words like arrows.
and aim their bitter words like arrows.
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
They shoot from ambush at the innocent,
attacking suddenly and fearlessly.
attacking suddenly and fearlessly.
To shoot from concealment at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.
Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.
They encourage each other to do evil
and plan how to set their traps in secret.
“Who will ever notice?” they ask.
and plan how to set their traps in secret.
“Who will ever notice?” they ask.
They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”
As they plot their crimes, they say,
“We have devised the perfect plan!”
Yes, the human heart and mind are cunning.
“We have devised the perfect plan!”
Yes, the human heart and mind are cunning.
They devise injustices, saying,
“We are ready with a well-conceived plot”;
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.
“We are ready with a well-conceived plot”;
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.
But God himself will shoot them with his arrows,
suddenly striking them down.
suddenly striking them down.
But God will shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.
Suddenly they will be wounded.
Their own tongues will ruin them,
and all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
and all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
So they will make him stumble;
Their own tongue is against them;
All who see them will shake the head.
Their own tongue is against them;
All who see them will shake the head.
Then everyone will be afraid;
they will proclaim the mighty acts of God
and realize all the amazing things he does.
they will proclaim the mighty acts of God
and realize all the amazing things he does.
Then all men will fear,
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.