Psalms 64:5

World English Bible (2000)

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

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  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
  • Ps 140:5 : 5 The 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.
  • Prov 1:11-14 : 11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit. 13 We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil. 14 You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."
  • Isa 41:6 : 6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!"
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.
  • Matt 23:15 : 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
  • Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
  • Rev 11:10 : 10 Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
  • Ps 94:7 : 7 They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."
  • Ps 124:7 : 7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, 'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
  • Num 22:6 : 6 Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed."
  • 1 Sam 23:19-23 : 19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't 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 your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand." 21 Saul said, "You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me. 22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."
  • Job 22:13 : 13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 64:2-4
    3 verses
    84%

    2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

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

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

  • Ps 64:6-8
    3 verses
    83%

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 1:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

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

    12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

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

  • 26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

  • 15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"

  • 2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

  • 2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • 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.

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

  • 11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

  • 14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

  • 3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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

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

  • 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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

  • 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

  • Ps 10:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • 30 One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

  • 4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

  • 5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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

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

  • 8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

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

  • 8 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

  • 4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

  • 5 For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

  • 14 in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

  • 20 Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

  • 11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • 5 The 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.

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

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

  • 14 The 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.

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

  • 14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

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

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

  • 2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.