Psalms 64:5
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
Cross References
Exodus 15:9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
Judges 20:22But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.
Job 22:13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
Psalms 59:7See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
Psalms 124:7We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
Proverbs 1:11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush 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 →