Psalms 64:6
(64-7) They search out iniquities, they have accomplished a diligent search; even in the inward thought of every one, and the deep heart.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
7(64-8) But God doth shoot at them with an arrow suddenly; thence are their wounds.
Cross References
Genesis 39:15And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled, and got him out.'
1 Samuel 24:9(24-10) And David said to Saul: 'Wherefore hearkenest thou to men's words, saying: Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
Psalms 5:9(5-10) For there is no sincerity in their mouth; their inward part is a yawning gulf, their throat is an open sepulchre; they make smooth their tongue.
Psalms 35:11Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
Proverbs 20:5Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceeding weak — who can know it?
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 →