Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
World English Bible
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In Context
4to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
6They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
Cross References
Exodus 15:9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’
Judges 20:22The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
Job 22:13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Psalms 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
Psalms 124:7Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
Proverbs 1:11If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lie in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for 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 →