Psalm 64-65

American Standard Version

64 Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint:
Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
² Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers,
From the ^[a]tumult of the workers of iniquity;
³ Who have whet their tongue like a sword,
And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
⁴ That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect:
Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil purpose;
They commune of laying snares privily;
They say, Who will see them?
⁶ They search out iniquities;
^[b]We have accomplished, say they, a diligent search:
And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.
⁷ But God will shoot at them;
With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
⁸ So ^[c]they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them:
All that see them shall ^[d]wag the head.
⁹ And all men shall fear;
And they shall declare the work of God,
And shall wisely consider of his doing.
¹⁰ The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take refuge in him;
And all the upright in heart shall glory.

^[e]65 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion;
And unto thee shall the vow be performed.
² O thou that hearest prayer,
Unto thee shall all flesh come.
^3 [f]Iniquities prevail against me:
As for our transgressions, thou wilt ^[g]forgive them.
⁴ Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee,
That he may dwell in thy courts:
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house,
Thy holy temple.
⁵ By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness,
O God of our salvation,
Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth,
And ^[h]of them that are afar off upon the sea:
⁶ Who by his strength setteth fast the mountains,
Being girded about with might;
⁷ Who stilleth the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.
⁸ They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens:
Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
⁹ Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it,
Thou greatly enrichest it;
The river of God is full of water:
Thou providest them grain, ^[i]when thou hast so prepared ^[j]the earth.
¹⁰ Thou waterest its furrows abundantly;
Thou ^[k]settlest the ridges thereof:
Thou makest it soft with showers;
Thou blessest the springing thereof.
¹¹ Thou crownest ^[l]the year with thy goodness;
And thy paths drop fatness.
^12 [m]They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness;
And the hills are girded with joy.
¹³ The pastures are clothed with flocks;
The valleys also are covered over with grain;
They shout for joy, they also sing.