Psalms 64:6

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

7And God doth shoot them [with] an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

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Cross References

Genesis 39:15and it cometh to pass, when he heareth that I have lifted up my voice and call, that he leaveth his garment near me, and fleeth, and goeth without.'

1 Samuel 24:9And David saith to Saul, 'Why dost thou hear the words of man, saying, Lo, David is seeking thine evil?

Psalms 5:9For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart [is] mischiefs, An open grave [is] their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

Psalms 35:11Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

Proverbs 20:5Counsel in the heart of a man [is] deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up.

Jeremiah 17:9Crooked [is] the heart above all things, And it [is] incurable — who doth 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 →

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