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Prayer for Rescue from Secret Enemies.

¹ Hear my voice, God, in ^(C1)my ^(F1)complaint;
^(C2)Protect my life from dread of the enemy.

² Hide me from the ^(C1)secret discussion of evildoers,
From the restlessness of ^(C2)the workers of injustice,

³ Who ^(C1)have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They ^(C2)aimed bitter speech as their arrows,

⁴ To ^(C1)shoot ^(F1)from concealment at the innocent;
Suddenly they shoot at him, and ^(C2)do not fear.

⁵ They make firm for themselves an evil ^(F1)purpose;
They ^(F2)talk of ^(C1)setting snares secretly;
They say, "^(C2)Who can see them?"

⁶ They ^(F1)devise injustices, saying,
"We are ^(F2)ready with a well-conceived plot";
For the ^(F3)(C1)inward thought and the heart of a person are ^(F4)deep.

⁷ But ^(C1)God ^(F1)will shoot an arrow at them;
Suddenly ^(F2)they will be wounded.

⁸ So ^(F1)they ^(F2)will ^(C1)make him stumble;
^(C2)Their own tongue is against them;
All who see them will ^(C3)shake their heads.

⁹ Then all people ^(F1)will ^(C1)fear,
And they ^(F2)will ^(C2)declare the work of God,
And ^(F3)will consider ^(F4)what He has done.

¹⁰ The righteous person will be ^(C1)glad in the LORD and ^(C2)take refuge in Him;
And all the upright in heart will boast.