Psalms 64:5

American Standard Version (1901)

They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?

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  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.
  • Ps 140:5 : 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
  • Prov 1:11-14 : 11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; 13 We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; 14 Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:
  • Isa 41:6 : 6 They help every one his neighbor; and [every one] saith to his brother, Be of good courage.
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land.
  • Matt 23:15 : 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; 4 and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
  • Rev 11:10 : 10 And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make merry; and they shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
  • Ps 94:7 : 7 And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
  • Ps 124:7 : 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
  • Num 22:6 : 6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
  • 1 Sam 23:19-23 : 19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? 20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand. 21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me. 22 Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
  • Job 22:13 : 13 And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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    2Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;

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

  • Ps 64:6-8
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    6They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, [say they], a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.

    7But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.

    8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

  • Prov 1:11-12
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    11If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

    12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Isa 29:15
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    15Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;

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    12They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me] ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

  • Ps 83:3
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    3Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

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    3Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.

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    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

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    1Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

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    7All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.

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    40When they couch in their dens, [And] abide in the covert to lie in wait?

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  • Prov 24:8
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    8He that deviseth to do evil, Men shall call him a mischief-maker.

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  • Ps 83:5
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    22Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap.

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    2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.