1 To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice, in my meditation, From the fear of an enemy Thou keepest my life, 2 Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity. 3 Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow — a bitter word. 4 To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not. 5 They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?' 6 They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep. 7 And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds, 8 And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away. 9 And all men fear, and declare the work of God, And His deed they have considered wisely. 10 The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!
Psalms · Young's Literal Translation
Psalm 64 Young's Literal Translation
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (10)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 34:4; Psalm 143:1–3; Psalm 130:1–2; Psalm 141:1; Lamentations 3:55–56
- 2 Psalm 109:2–3; Psalm 143:9; Psalm 59:2; Psalm 31:20; Psalm 27:5
- 3 Jeremiah 9:3; Psalm 57:4; Psalm 58:7; James 3:6–8; Psalm 11:2
- 4 1 Peter 2:22–23; Psalm 55:19; Psalm 10:8–9; Psalm 11:2; John 19:6
- 5 Psalm 140:5; Psalm 10:11; Job 22:13; Ezekiel 8:12; Psalm 94:7
- 6 Matthew 26:59; Jeremiah 17:9–10; Psalm 5:9; Isaiah 29:15; Daniel 6:4–5
- 7 Proverbs 6:15; Psalm 7:12–13; 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3; Psalm 18:14; Job 6:4
- 8 Proverbs 18:7; Proverbs 12:13; Psalm 140:9; Psalm 31:11; Nahum 3:7
- 9 Jeremiah 51:10; Hosea 14:9; Psalm 40:3; Psalm 107:42–43; Isaiah 5:12
- 10 Psalms 32:11–33:1; Psalm 40:3; 1 Corinthians 1:30–31; Psalm 25:20; Psalm 112:2
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
This psalm hath the title, "For David himself, when he was in the desert of Idumæa." By the name of Idumæa is understood this world. For Idumæa was a certain nation of men going astray, where idols were worshipped. In no good sense is put this Idumæa.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
For these meaner things have their delights, but not like unto my God, who hath created all things; for in Him doth the righteous delight, and He is the sweetness of the upright in heart.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)