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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 64:2-4
    3 verses
    84%

    2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

    3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:

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

  • Ps 64:6-8
    3 verses
    83%

    6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep.

    7 ¶ But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

    8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  • 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

  • 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • Prov 1:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    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:

  • 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.

  • 26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • 15 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?

  • 2 Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.

  • 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • 2 For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

  • 12 ¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • 11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].

  • 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

  • 14 Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

  • 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

  • 4 They only consult to cast [him] down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • 1 ¶ Woe 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.

  • 16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.

  • 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

  • Ps 10:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

    9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

  • 30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

  • 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.

  • 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • 7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

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

  • 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily.

  • 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

  • 8 He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

  • 4 [How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

  • 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

  • 14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

  • 20 ¶ Deceit [is] in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace [is] joy.

  • 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  • 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.

  • 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • 22 ¶ Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

  • 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.

  • 13 Hide them in the dust together; [and] bind their faces in secret.

  • 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

  • 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • 2 The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.