Psalms 140:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

Psalms 140:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 36:4
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms 64:5-6
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? …
Hosea 7:6
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Micah 2:1-3
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Bowels Cruelty Hatred Heart Malice Retaliation

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

In this, as in other things, David was a type of Christ, that he suffered before he reigned, was humbled before he was exalted, and that as there were many who loved and valued him, and sought to do him honour, so there were many who hated and envied him, and sought to do him mischief, as appears by these verses, where, I. He gives a character of his enemies, and paints them out in their own colou…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2-5. This character of the wicked, and the devices planned against the pious, correspond to Psa 10:7; 31:13; 58:4, &c.