Psalm 64

⁴I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.

¹A Psalm of David. O Lord, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.

²Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.

¹A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord!

²O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

¹A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O Lord; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.

⁵⁵I called on Your name, O Lord, out of the depths of the Pit.

⁵⁶You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,

²For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

³They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

⁹Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord; I flee to You for refuge.

²Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.

²⁰You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.

⁵For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

¹⁹For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”

³“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the Lord.

⁴My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

⁷May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.

⁶The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

⁷All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,

²For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

¹⁷No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.

²²“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

²³When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

¹⁹God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.

⁸He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

⁹He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

²For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

⁶As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” “You take Him and crucify Him,” Pilate replied, “for I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

¹¹and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

⁵The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

¹¹He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

¹³Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

¹²“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

⁷They say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”

⁷See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

⁵⁹Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

⁹The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

¹⁰I, the Lord, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

⁹For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

¹⁵Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the Lord. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”

⁴Thus the administrators and satraps sought a charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no charge or corruption, because he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption was found in him.

⁵Finally these men said, “We will never find any charge against this Daniel unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God.”

⁵Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

¹⁵Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.

¹²If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

¹³He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

²For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

³While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

¹⁴He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

⁴For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

¹A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.

⁷A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

¹³An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.

⁹May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

¹¹Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.

⁷Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

⁴¹“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”

¹⁰“The Lord has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the Lord our God has accomplished.”

⁹Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.

⁴²The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.

⁴³Let him who is wise pay heed to these things and consider the loving devotion of the Lord.

¹²At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the Lord and fail to see the work of His hands.

¹¹Then men will say, “There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!”

¹¹Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.

³⁰It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

³¹Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.”

²⁰Guard my soul and deliver me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in You.

²His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

¹⁹The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them: