Psalms 64:6

They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.

Majority Standard Bible

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

5They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.

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Cross References

Genesis 39:15When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”

1 Samuel 24:9and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?

Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

Psalms 35:11Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.

Proverbs 20:5The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.

Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand 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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