Psalms 64:5

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

In Context

4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

6They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart [are] deep.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:9The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: —

Judges 20:22And the people, the men of Israel, strengthen themselves, and add to set the battle in array in the place where they arranged themselves on the first day.

Job 22:13And thou hast said, 'What — hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

Psalms 59:7Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords [are] in their lips, for 'Who heareth?'

Psalms 124:7Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

Proverbs 1:11If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch 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 →

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