1. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint: Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
2. Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;
3. Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
4. That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.