1. For the music director, a psalm of David.
2. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint. Protect my life from terror of the enemy.
3. Hide me from the conspiracy of evildoers, from the tumult of workers of iniquity,
4. who sharpened their tongue like a sword, and aimed their arrow—bitter words,
5. to shoot from hiding at the innocent, shooting suddenly at him, with no fear.