Commentary on Psalms - Volume 5

1Hear, O God! my voice in my prayer: From fear of the enemy preserve my life.

2Hide me from the counsel of malignant men — From the assembly of tire workers of iniquity.

3For they have sharpened as a sword their tongue; They have directed for their arrow a bitter word.

4To shoot in secret at the innocent man: Suddenly they will shoot and not fear.

5They encourage themselves in an impious action; They talk together of secretly laying snares; They say, “Who shall see them?”

6They have searched out iniquities, They have accomplished a searching search: And the inward part of each of them and the heart [is] deep.

7But God shall shoot at them an arrow; Suddenly shall they be wounded.

8And they shall make their own tongue fall upon themselves, And flee away shall all who see them.

9And see shall all men, and shall declare the work of God, And his doing they shall understand.

10Rejoice shall the righteous in Jehovah, and they shall hope in him; And glory shall all the upright in heart.