Psalms 64:5
They strengthen their wicked purpose, they tell of the snares they have hidden, they say to themselves, “Who can see?”
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4which from ambush they launch at the blameless, shooting swiftly and unafraid.
6They think out their crimes full cunningly hidden deep in their crafty hearts.
Cross References
Psalms 59:7Look at their venomous mouths, tongues like swords, they think no one hears them.
Psalms 124:7We are like a bird just escaped from the snare of the fowler. The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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 →