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They carefully plot[a] injustices saying,
“We have perfected the perfect plot!”[b]
Both the inner thought[c] and heart of a man are deep.
But God will shoot them;
with an arrow they will suddenly be wounded.
[d] And they who would cause him[e] to stumble,
their own tongue will be against them.
All who gaze on them will shake.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 64:6 Literally “They search out”
  2. Psalm 64:6 Literally “a plotted plot”
  3. Psalm 64:6 Literally “inward part”
  4. Psalm 64:8 The Hebrew of this verse is very difficult
  5. Psalm 64:8 That is, the psalmist
  6. Psalm 64:8 Perhaps a shaking of the head; a similar Hebrew form could be translated “will flee”