Psalms 64:9
and their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8and God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:
10and every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God: and understood his doings.
Cross References
Psalms 53:5Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?
Psalms 59:13For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of,
Isaiah 5:12The harp, and the lyre, and the timbrel, and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.
Jeremiah 51:10The Lord hath brought forth our justices: Come, and let us declare in Sion the work of the Lord our God.
Hosea 14:9Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 64:8-10
God's Judgments on Persecutors. 7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. 9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. 10 The righteous shall be glad in the Lord , and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. We may observe here, I. The judgments of God which should certainly come upon these malicious… Read the whole commentary →