Psalms 64:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

Psalms 64:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Psalms 10:11
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalms 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Job 22:13
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Psalms 94:7
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

Topics

Anger Cruelty Hatred Heart Impenitence Infidelity Malice Materialism

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. 5)

5. A sentiment here more fully presented, by depicting their deliberate malice.