Psalms 64:6

They think out their crimes full cunningly hidden deep in their crafty hearts.

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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 strengthen their wicked purpose, they tell of the snares they have hidden, they say to themselves, “Who can see?”

7But God with his arrow will shoot them, swiftly shall they be smitten.

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Cross References

Genesis 39:15and when he heard me scream, he left his garment with me and ran out of the house.”

Psalms 5:9For their mouth is a stranger to truth, their heart is a pit of destruction. Their throat is a wide open grave, their tongue the smooth tongue of the hypocrite.

Psalms 35:11Violent witnesses rise, and ask of me things that I know not.

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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