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Hide Me from the Wicked

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

 Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
   preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
² Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
   from the throng of evildoers,
³ who whet their tongues like swords,
   who aim bitter words like arrows,
⁴ shooting from ambush at the blameless,
   shooting at him suddenly and without fear.
⁵ They hold fast to their evil purpose;
   they talk of laying snares secretly,
thinking, “Who can see them?”
⁶     They search out injustice,
saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.”
   For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.

⁷ But God shoots his arrow at them;
they are wounded suddenly.
⁸ They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them;
all who see them will wag their heads.
⁹ Then all mankind fears;
they tell what God has brought about
and ponder what he has done.

¹⁰ Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord
and take refuge in him!
Let all the upright in heart exult!

Cross references:

1. Psalm 64:1 : Ps. 55:2
2. Psalm 64:2 : [Ps. 55:14]
3. Psalm 64:3 : See Ps. 57:4
4. Psalm 64:3 : See Ps. 11:2
5. Psalm 64:4 : [Ps. 10:8]
6. Psalm 64:4 : Ps. 55:19
7. Psalm 64:5 : Jer. 23:14; Ezek. 13:22
8. Psalm 64:5 : See Ps. 140:5
9. Psalm 64:5 : See Job 22:13
10. Psalm 64:6 : Ps. 49:11
11. Psalm 64:7 : Ps. 7:12, 13; [Ps. 58:7]
12. Psalm 64:8 : See Prov. 12:13; 18:7
13. Psalm 64:8 : See Ps. 40:3
14. Psalm 64:8 : Jer. 18:16; 48:27; See Ps. 22:7
15. Psalm 64:9 : [See ver. 8 above]; See Ps. 40:3
16. Psalm 64:9 : Jer. 50:28; 51:10
17. Psalm 64:10 : See Ps. 32:11; Job 22:19
18. Psalm 64:10 : See Ps. 11:1
19. Psalm 64:10 : See Ps. 7:10