Psalms 64:5

to shoot in secret the undefiled.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

In Context

4For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

6They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?

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Cross References

Exodus 15:9The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

Judges 20:22Again Israel trusting in their strength and their number, set their army in array in the same place, where they had fought before:

Job 22:13And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

Psalms 59:7They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.

Proverbs 1:11If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:

Matthew Henry on Psalms 64:2-7

Malice of David's Enemies. 1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: 4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6… Read the whole commentary →

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