Psalms 64:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not.

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  • Ps 55:19 : 19 God shall heare and afflict them, euen hee that reigneth of olde, Selah. because they haue no changes, therefore they feare not God.
  • Ps 59:3-4 : 3 For loe, they haue layd waite for my soule: the mightie men are gathered against me, not for mine offence, nor for my sinne, O Lord. 4 They runne and prepare themselues without a fault on my part: arise therefore to assist me, and beholde.
  • Ps 64:7 : 7 But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.
  • Hab 3:14 : 14 Thou didest strike thorowe with his owne staues the heades of his villages: they came out as a whirle winde to scatter me: their reioycing was as to deuoure the poore secretly.
  • John 19:6 : 6 Then when the hie Priests & officers sawe him, they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him. Pilate said vnto them, Take yee him and crucifie him: for I finde no fault in him.
  • 1 Pet 2:22-23 : 22 Who did no sinne, neither was there guile found in his mouth. 23 Who when hee was reuiled, reuiled not againe: when hee suffered, hee threatned not, but comitted it to him that iudgeth righteously.
  • 1 Sam 18:11 : 11 And Saul tooke the speare, and sayd, I will smite Dauid through to the wall. But Dauid auoyded twise out of his presence.
  • 1 Sam 19:10 : 10 And Saul intended to smite Dauid to the wall with the speare: but hee turned aside out of Sauls presence, & he smote the speare against the wall: but Dauid fled, & escaped the same night.
  • 2 Sam 15:14 : 14 Then Dauid sayd vnto all his seruants that were with him at Ierusalem, Vp, and let vs flee: for we shall not escape from Absalom: make speede to depart, lest he come suddenly and take vs, and bring euill vpon vs, and smite the citie with the edge of the sworde.
  • Neh 4:11 : 11 Also our aduersaries had sayde, They shall not knowe, neither see, till we come into the middes of them and slay them, and cause the worke to cease.
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murther the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore. 9 He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.
  • Ps 11:2 : 2 For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.

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  • Ps 64:5-8
    4 verses
    86%

    5 They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them?

    6 They haue sought out iniquities, and haue accomplished that which they sought out, euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the depth of his heart.

    7 But God will shoote an arrowe at them suddenly: their strokes shalbe at once.

    8 They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.

  • Ps 64:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2 Hide me from the conspiracie of the wicked, and from the rage of the workers of iniquitie.

    3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

  • 2 For loe, the wicked bende their bowe, and make readie their arrowes vpon the string, that they may secretly shoote at them, which are vpright in heart.

  • 6 They gather together, and keepe them selues close: they marke my steps, because they waite for my soule.

  • 14 The wicked haue drawen their sworde, and haue bent their bowe, to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of vpright conuersation.

  • Ps 21:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11 For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.

    12 Therefore shalt thou put them aparte, and the strings of thy bowe shalt thou make readie against their faces.

  • 7 Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.

  • 18 So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

  • 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • Ps 10:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murther the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.

    9 He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

  • 3 They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and haue consulted against thy secret ones.

  • 16 For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.

  • 8 Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

  • 20 For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 For without cause they haue hid the pit & their net for me: without cause haue they digged a pit for my soule.

    8 Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.

  • Ps 62:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shalbe all slaine: ye shalbe as a bowed wall, or as a wall shaken.

    4 Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.

  • 13 Hee hath also prepared him deadly weapons: hee will ordeine his arrowes for them that persecute me.

  • 26 He striketh them as wicked men in the places of the seers,

  • 11 If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:

  • 13 (40:8) Hide them in the dust together, and binde their faces in a secret place.

  • Ps 17:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 They haue compassed vs now in our steps: they haue set their eyes to bring downe to the ground:

    12 Like as a lyon that is greedy of pray, and as it were a lyons whelp lurking in secret places.

  • 22 Let the crye bee heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring an hoste suddenly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feete.

  • 12 They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.

  • 3 For loe, they haue layd waite for my soule: the mightie men are gathered against me, not for mine offence, nor for my sinne, O Lord.

  • Ps 140:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.

    3 They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.

  • 7 All they that hate me, whisper together against me: euen against me do they imagine mine hurt.

  • 22 Let their table be a snare before them, and their prosperitie their ruine.

  • 21 They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.

  • 5 The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.

  • 16 They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.

  • 16 Whose quiuer is as an open sepulchre: they are all very strong.

  • 4 It is as the sharpe arrowes of a mightie man, and as the coales of iuniper.

  • 14 Let them be confounded & put to shame together, that seeke my soule to destroye it: let them be driuen backward and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.

  • 12 The wicked practiseth against the iust, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

  • 12 For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.

  • 4 Let them be confounded & put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.

  • 24 Powre out thine anger vpon them, and let thy wrathfull displeasure take them.

  • 40 (39:2) When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite?

  • 12 He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.

  • 6 They haue layd a net for my steps: my soule is pressed downe: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the mids of it. Selah.