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64 [1] **For the chief musician, a psalm by David. **
[2] **Hear my voice, God, in my prayer; preserve my life from the terror of the enemy. **
[3] **Hide me from the counsel of the wicked, **from their plans against me, **from the tumult of evildoers, **
[4] **who whet their tongues like a sword, aiming their arrows, **a metaphor for their tongues,** with venomous words**
[5] **to shoot furtively at the innocent. They shoot him suddenly, **with no warning,** and without fear, **since they perform their nefarious acts in secret.** **
[6] **They bolster themselves with **engaging in **evil matters. They speak **among themselves **of laying hidden snares, saying: Who will see them? **Because they act furtively, they assume they will never be discovered.
[7] **They thoroughly seek out iniquities **to commit,** to the very depths of a man’s heart, **another reference to the clandestine nature of their plans and actions.
[8] In this kind of situation, a person can only pray to God for help:** May God shoot them with an unexpected arrow, smiting them. **
[9] **Their own **vicious **tongues will **backfire and **cause them, **instead of me,** to stumble. **May the tongues they used against me become the instrument of their own downfall. **All those who behold them **in defeat **will shudder **in revulsion and shock.
[10] **And all men **who witness the downfall of the evildoers **will be in awe; they will declare it the work of God, understanding it as His doing*****.*** When people see that the wicked are trapped and devastated by their own evil schemes, they will understand that the world is orchestrated by God’s will.* *
[11] **The righteous will **then **rejoice in the Lord and trust in Him, and all the upright in heart will be glorified. **
Version: The Steinsaltz Tanakh - English
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