Psalms 64:6

(64:7) They search out iniquities; “We are ready with the carefully searched out device:” and the inward thought and heart of each is deeply [hidden].

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

In Context

5(64:6) They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they tell secretly of laying snares: they say, Who will see them?

7(64:8) But God shooteth at them suddenly [his] arrow;—[thence] are come their wounds.

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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 with me, and fled, and ran out into the street.

1 Samuel 24:9And David said to Saul, Wherefore wilt thou listen to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy injury?

Psalms 5:9(5:10) For there is not in their mouth any sincerity; their inward part is full of deception; an open sepulchre is their throat: they flatter with their tongue.

Psalms 35:11There rise up witnesses of violence; concerning what I know not they question me.

Proverbs 20:5Like deep water is counsel in the heart of man; but the man of understanding will draw it out.

Jeremiah 17:9Deceitful is the heart above all things, and sick: 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 →

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