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Psalm 64
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
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Footnotes
The Hurtful Tongue
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1Hear, O God, my voice of complaint;preserve my life from dread of the enemy. 2Hide me from the scheming of the wicked,from the mob of workers of iniquity, 3who sharpen their tongues like swordsand aim their bitter words like arrows, 4ambushing the innocent in seclusion,shooting suddenly, without fear.
5They hold fast to their evil purpose;they speak of hiding their snares.“Who will see them?” they say. 6They devise injustice and say,“We have perfected a secret plan.”For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
7But God will shoot them with arrows;suddenly they will be wounded. 8They will be made to stumble,their own tongues turned against them.All who see will shake their heads. 9Then all mankind will fearand proclaim the work of God;so they will ponder what He has done.
10Let the righteous rejoice in the LORDand take refuge in Him;let all the upright in heart exult.
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