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They help each other to do evil things.
They decide where they will hide their traps,
    and they say, ‘Nobody will see them!’
They think of wicked ideas to hurt people.
    They say, ‘That is a great idea!’[a]
Nobody really understands what people think
    deep inside themselves.
But God will punish them!
He will suddenly shoot an arrow at them
    and it will hurt them a lot.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 64:6 David gives us a picture of the bad men. They hide so nobody can see them. They are like people who shoot arrows at other people to hurt them. They think that nobody will ever find out what they have done.
  2. 64:7 Arrows are a picture of how God will punish them. The things that bad people do to hurt other people are like arrows. So God's punishment will also be like arrows.