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Psalms 64

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The plot against the innocent is armed with tongues, and then—rather neatly—the tongues become the trap.

Words sharpened into weaponsvv. 1–6

David asks God to preserve his life from dread and hide him from the scheming mob. The wicked sharpen tongues like swords, aim bitter words like arrows, and arrange their secret snares with the breezy confidence of people who suppose invisibility is a plan. Their inner man and heart remain mysterious, even to themselves.

The snare catches its makersvv. 7–10

God answers the arrows with arrows of his own. The plotters are wounded suddenly, then made to stumble by the very tongues they had sharpened; the spectators shake their heads, mankind fears and proclaims what God has done, and the righteous rejoice and take refuge in the LORD.

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Ps 64:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Ps 64:2Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
Ps 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
Ps 64:4ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
Ps 64:5They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
Ps 64:6They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
Ps 64:7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
Ps 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
Ps 64:9Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.
Ps 64:10Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in Him; let all the upright in heart exult.

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10 Psalms 32:11–1Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.
2 Psalms 59:2Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.
2 Psalms 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD; I flee to You for refuge.
8 Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
10 1 Corinthians 1:30–31It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
10 Psalms 40:3He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
2 Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
2 Psalms 109:2–3For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
9 Jeremiah 51:10“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
6 Matthew 26:59Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
6 Jeremiah 17:9–10The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
8 Proverbs 12:13An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
2 Jeremiah 18:23But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
2 Isaiah 32:2Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
5 Psalms 140:5The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
6 Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

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