Psalms 64:6
They devise perverse things, They have completed the device well devised, Both the intent of each one, and the mind, are unsearchable.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
7Once let God have shot at them an arrow, Suddenly have appeared their own wounds!
Cross References
Genesis 39:15And it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted high my voice, and cried out, then left he his garment beside me, and fled and gat forth outside.
1 Samuel 24:9Then said David to Saul, Wherefore shouldst thou hearken unto the words of the sons of earth, saying,—Lo! David is seeking thy hurt?
Psalms 5:9For in his mouth is nothing worthy of trust, Their inward purpose, is engulphing ruin,—An opened sepulchre, is their throat, With their tongue, speak they smooth things.
Psalms 35:11There rise up witnesses helping forward violence and wrong, What I know not, they demand of me:
Proverbs 20:5Deep water, is counsel in a man’s heart, but, a man of understanding, will draw it out.
Jeremiah 17:9Deceitful is the heart above all things And, dangerously wayward,—Who can know 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 →