Psalm 63
Exaudi Deus orationem. A prayer in affliction, with confidence in God that he will bring to nought the machinations of persecutors.
1Unto the end, a psalm for David.2Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.3Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.4For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,5To shoot in secret the undefiled.6They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?7They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:8And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:9And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;10And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God: and understood his doings.11The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.