Psalms 64:5

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He hath said 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 the grave; 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 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
  • Isa 41:6 : 6 They helped every one his neighbour; and [every one] said to his brother, Be of good courage.
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
  • 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 made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.›
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill [him].
  • Rev 11:10 : 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt 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 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard [it].
  • 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 lust 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 wot 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 strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which [is] on the south of Jeshimon? 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 into the king's hand. 21 And Saul said, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on me. 22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, 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 subtilly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the 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 throughout all the thousands of Judah.
  • Job 22:13 : 13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

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