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6They search out{H8799)} iniquities; they accomplish{H8804)} a diligent{H8794)} search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? …
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
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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 ene…
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