New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 O God, listen to my complaint. Protect my life from my enemies’ threats.
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To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life,
2 Hide me from the plots of this evil mob, from this gang of wrongdoers.
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Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.
3 They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows.
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Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.
4 They shoot from ambush at the innocent, attacking suddenly and fearlessly.
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To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
5 They encourage each other to do evil and plan how to set their traps in secret. “Who will ever notice?” they ask.
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They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'
6 As they plot their crimes, they say, “We have devised the perfect plan!” Yes, the human heart and mind are cunning.
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They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep.
7 But God himself will shoot them with his arrows, suddenly striking them down.
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And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
8 Their own tongues will ruin them, and all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
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And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
9 Then everyone will be afraid; they will proclaim the mighty acts of God and realize all the amazing things he does.
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And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely.
10 The godly will rejoice in the LORD and find shelter in him. And those who do what is right will praise him.
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The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!