Psalms 56:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Psalms 56:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 59:3
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
Psalms 71:10
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
Psalms 140:2
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
Acts 23:12-14
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. …
Luke 20:20
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Cruelty Hatred Heart Malice Retaliation Scoffing

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-7)

David, in this psalm, by his faith throws himself into the hands of God, even when he had by his fear and folly thrown himself into the hands of the Philistines; it was when they took him in Gath, whither he fled for fear of Saul, forgetting the quarrel they had with him for killing Goliath; but they soon put him in mid of it, 1 Sam. 21:10, 11. Upon that occasion he changed his behaviour, but with…

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

(vv. 6)

5-6. A vivid picture of the conduct of malicious enemies.