Psalms 64:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

Psalms 64:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 55:19
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.
Psalms 10:8-9
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. …
1 Peter 2:22-23
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: …
Psalms 11:2
For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
1 Samuel 18:11
And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

Topics

Anger Cruelty Hatred Heart Malice Retaliation Scoffing Speaking

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-6)

David, in these verses, puts in before God a representation of his own danger and of his enemies’ character, to enforce his petition that God would protect him and punish them. I. He earnestly begs of God to preserve him (Ps. 64:1, 2): Hear my voice, O God! in my prayer; that is, grant me the thing I pray for, and this is it, Lord, preserve my life from fear of the enemy, that is, fro the enemy th…

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

(vv. 4)

3-4. Similar figures for slander (Psa 57:4; 59:7). bend--literally, “tread,” or, “prepared.” The allusion is to the mode of bending a bow by treading on it; here, and in Psa 58:7, transferred to arrows.