64:1–10 Several features of this prayer psalm point towards its use as a liturgy concerned with the general issue of social injustices. First, while the psalm begins with the voice of an individual (I, me, and my in vv. 1–2), its attention is thereafter devoted to two groups, the wicked (vv. 2–8, called the enemy in v. 1, not “my enemy”) and the righteous (vv. 4, 9–10). This shift is understandable if the opening “I” is a representative speaker. Second, the psalm’s structure does not make clear sense if we attempt to read it as a unified prayer of a lone individual. It opens with the psalm’s only petitions (vv. 1–2), that God hear and hide the speaker, and then laments (vv. 3–6) the conspiracies, verbal attacks, and traps of the wicked, who act without fear of divine judgment (Who will se…