Psalms 62:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 62

³How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.

Psalms 62:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
Psalms 82:2
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Psalms 140:2
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Psalms 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Topics

Agriculture Anger Cruelty Fence Hatred Heart Hedge Malice

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-7)

In these verses we have, I. David’s profession of dependence upon God, and upon him only, for all good (Ps. 62:1): Truly my soul waiteth upon God. Nevertheless (so some) or “ However it be, whatever difficulties or dangers I may meet with, though God frown upon me and I meet with discouragements in my attendance on him, yet still my soul waits upon God” (or is silent to God, as the word is), “Says…

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

(vv. 3)

3. Their destruction will come; as a tottering wall they already are feeble and failing. bowing wall shall ye be--better supply “are.” Some propose to apply these phrases to describe the condition of “a man”--that is, the pious suffer: thus, “Will ye slay him,” &c.; but the other is a good sense.