They plot injustice and say,
    “We have devised a perfect plan!”
    Surely the human mind and heart are cunning.

But God will shoot them with his arrows;
    they will suddenly be struck down.
He will turn their own tongues against them(A)
    and bring them to ruin;
    all who see them will shake their heads(B) in scorn.(C)

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They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

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They devise iniquities:
“We have perfected a shrewd scheme.”
Both the inward thought and the heart of man are deep.

But God shall shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they shall be wounded.
So He will make them stumble over their own tongue;
(A)All who see them shall flee away.

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They [a]devise injustices, saying,
“We are [b]ready with a well-conceived plot”;
For the [c](A)inward thought and the heart of a person are [d]deep.

But (B)God [e]will shoot an arrow at them;
Suddenly [f]they will be wounded.
So [g]they [h]will (C)make him stumble;
(D)Their own tongue is against them;
All who see them will (E)shake their heads.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 64:6 Or search out
  2. Psalm 64:6 Lit complete
  3. Psalm 64:6 Or inward part
  4. Psalm 64:6 Or unsearchable
  5. Psalm 64:7 Or shot
  6. Psalm 64:7 Or they were wounded; lit their wounds occurred
  7. Psalm 64:8 Or they make their tongue a stumbling for themselves
  8. Psalm 64:8 Or made