Psalms 64:4

World English Bible (2000)

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 55:19 : 19 God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don't fear God.
  • Ps 59:3-4 : 3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh. 4 I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
  • Ps 64:7 : 7 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.
  • Hab 3:14 : 14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
  • John 19:6 : 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
  • 1 Pet 2:22-23 : 22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
  • 1 Sam 18:11 : 11 and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.
  • 1 Sam 19:10 : 10 Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.
  • 2 Sam 15:14 : 14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword."
  • Neh 4:11 : 11 Our adversaries said, "They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease."
  • Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. 9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
  • Ps 11:2 : 2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 64:5-8
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    5They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

    6They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

    7But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

    8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

  • Ps 64:2-3
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    2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

    3who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 56:6
    77%

    6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Ps 21:11-12
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    11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

    12For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

  • Ps 58:7
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    7Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Ps 37:32
    74%

    32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Ps 10:8-9
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    74%

    8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

    9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

  • Ps 83:3
    73%

    3They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

    8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    72%

    3How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

    4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 7:13
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    13He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

  • Job 34:26
    72%

    26He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;

  • Prov 1:11
    72%

    11If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Job 40:13
    72%

    13Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

    12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Jer 18:22
    72%

    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Ps 38:12
    72%

    12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

  • Ps 140:2-3
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    2those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Ps 41:7
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    7All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

  • Ps 69:22
    71%

    22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

  • Ps 94:21
    71%

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

  • Ps 140:5
    71%

    5The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Job 24:16
    71%

    16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

  • Jer 5:16
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    16Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

  • Ps 120:4
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    4Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

  • Ps 40:14
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    14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

  • Ps 59:12
    71%

    12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Ps 35:4
    71%

    4Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

  • Ps 69:24
    71%

    24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

  • Job 38:40
    70%

    40when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

  • Lam 3:12
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    12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.