1. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. 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.