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

  2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

  3 Who whet their ^atongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even ^bbitter words:

  4 That they may ^ashoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

  5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares ^aprivily; they say, Who shall ^bsee them?

  6 They search out ^ainiquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

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

  8 So they shall make their own tongue to ^afall upon themselves: all that see them shall ^bflee away.

  10 The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall ^atrust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.