Chapter 64
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
A. M. 2943. B.C. 1061. Hear
27:7 55:1,2 130:1,2 141:1 143:1-3 Lamentations 3:55,56
preserve
17:8,9 31:13-15 34:4 56:2-4 Acts 18:9,10 27:24
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Hide
secret
56:6 109:2,3 Genesis 4:6 1 Samuel 23:22,23 2 Samuel 17:2-4 Jeremiah 11:19 18:23 Matthew 26:3,4 Acts 23:14,15 25:3
insurrection
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
whet
57:4 Proverbs 12:18 30:14 Isaiah 54:17 Jeremiah 9:3 James 3:6-8
bend
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
shoot
10:8,9 Nehemiah 4:11 Habakkuk 3:14
the perfect
59:3,4 John 19:6 1 Peter 2:22,23
suddenly
7 1 Samuel 18:11 19:10 2 Samuel 15:14
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
encourage
Exodus 15:9 Numbers 22:6 Proverbs 1:11-14 Isaiah 41:6 Revelation 11:10
matter
or, speech. commune.
1 Samuel 23:19-23 Matthew 23:15 26:3,4
of laying snares
Heb. to hide snares.
Who
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
search
35:11 1 Samuel 22:9 24:9 25:10 Daniel 6:4,5 Matthew 26:59 John 18:29,30 19:7
they accomplish, etc
or, we are consumed by that which they have thoroughly searched. a diligent search. Heb. a search searched. both.
5:9 Proverbs 20:5 Isaiah 29:15 Jeremiah 17:9,10 1 Corinthians 4:5
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
God
7:12,13 18:14 Deuteronomy 32:23,42 Job 6:4 Lamentations 3:12,13
suddenly
4 73:19 Proverbs 6:15 29:1 Isaiah 30:13 Matthew 24:40,50,51 1 Thessalonians 5:2,3
shall they be wounded
Heb. their wound shall be.
1 Kings 22:34 1 Chronicles 10:3-7
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
tongue
59:12 140:9 Job 15:6 Proverbs 12:13 18:7 Matthew 21:41 Luke 19:22
all that
31:11 52:6 Numbers 16:34 1 Samuel 31:3-7 Nahum 3:7 Revelation 18:4,10
And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.
fear
40:3 53:5 119:20 Jeremiah 50:28 51:10 Revelation 11:13
they
58:11 107:42,43 Isaiah 5:12 Ezekiel 14:23 Hosea 14:9
The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
righteous
32:11 33:1 40:3 58:10 68:2,3 Philippians 4:4