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Psalms 64
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
1To 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 O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.
2Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.
2Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;
3Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow--a bitter word.
3Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
4So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.
5They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'
5They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
6They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart <FI>are<Fi> deep.
6Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.
7And God doth shoot them <FI>with<Fi> an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
7But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.
8And they cause him to stumble, Against them <FI>is<Fi> their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
8The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.