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Prayer for Deliverance from Secret Enemies.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
BPs 140:1Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
2 Hide me from the APs 56:6secret counsel of evildoers,
From the tumult of BPs 59:2those who do iniquity,
3 Who APs 140:3have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They BPs 58:7aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
Suddenly they shoot at him, and BPs 55:19do not fear.
5 They 1Lit make firmhold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They 2Lit tell oftalk of APs 140:5laying snares secretly;
They say, “BJob 22:13; Ps 10:11Who can see them?”
“We are 2Lit completeready with a well-conceived plot”;
Suddenly 2Or they were wounded; lit their wounds occurredthey will be wounded.
8 So 1Or they make their tongue a stumbling for themselvesthey 2Or madewill APs 9:3make him stumble;
BProv 12:13; 18:7Their own tongue is against them;
All who see them will CPs 22:7; 44:14; Jer 18:16; 48:27; Lam 2:15shake the head.
And they 2Or declaredwill BJer 51:10declare the work of God,
And 3Or consideredwill consider 4Lit His workwhat He has done.
10 The righteous man will be AJob 22:19; Ps 32:11glad in the Loʀᴅ and will BPs 11:1; 25:20take refuge in Him;
And all the upright in heart will glory.
164:1 Or concern
164:4 Lit in
164:5 Lit make firm
264:5 Lit tell of
164:6 Or search out
264:6 Lit complete
364:6 Or inward part
464:6 Or unsearchable
164:7 Or shot
264:7 Or they were wounded; lit their wounds occurred
164:8 Or they make their tongue a stumbling for themselves
264:8 Or made
C64:8 Ps 22:7; 44:14; Jer 18:16; 48:27; Lam 2:15
164:9 Or feared
264:9 Or declared
364:9 Or considered
464:9 Lit His work