Psalms 64 YLT
Summary: A lament against secret conspirators, Psalm 64 asks God to hide the psalmist from the "secret plots of the wicked" who sharpen their tongues like swords and shoot bitter words like arrows "from ambush" at the blameless (v. 2-4). Its argument turns on reversal: the very arrows and schemes the wicked aim in secret will be turned back on them suddenly and publicly, so that "they are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them" (v. 7-8). It closes with the righteous rejoicing and taking refuge in God as all who see it "tell what God has brought about" (v. 9-10).
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,
2Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.
3Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow--a bitter word.
4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
5They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'
6They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.
7And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,
8And they cause him to stumble, Against them is their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
9And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely.
10The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!
Also read this chapter in: KJV, WEB, ASV, WYC, GNV, WBT, DBY