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Psalms 64:2
2Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint. Protect my life from terror of the enemy.
Psalms 64:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
- New International Version (NIV)Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the plots of evildoers.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, From the rebellion of the workers of iniquity,
Context of Psalms 64:2
1For the music director, a psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint. Protect my life from terror of the enemy. 3Hide me from the conspiracy of evildoers, from the tumult of workers of iniquity, 4who sharpened their tongue like a sword, and aimed their arrow—bitter words,
Read all of Psalms 64Psalms 64:2 word by word
תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִי מִסּ֣וֹד מְרֵעִ֑ים מֵ֝רִגְשַׁ֗ת פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 64:2
- Psalms 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His sukkah, conceal me in the shelter of His tent, and set me high upon a rock.
- Psalms 31:20How great is Your goodness, which You have stored up for those who fear You, which You have given to those who take refuge in You, before the children of men.
- Psalms 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, Adonai. I hide myself in You.
- Isaiah 32:2Each will be like a refuge from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a massive rock in a weary land.
- Psalms 56:6All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
- Psalms 109:2For the wicked and the deceitful have opened their mouth against me. They spoke to me with a lying tongue,
- Genesis 4:6Then Adonai said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
- 1 Samuel 23:22Go now, make more sure, investigate and scout out his place where he usually goes and who has seen him there. For I have been told that he is very cunning.
- 2 Samuel 17:2I will attack him while he is weary and weak-handed, and terrify him so that all the people that are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king when he is alone.
- Jeremiah 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter. I did not know they had devised plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be no more remembered.”
- Jeremiah 18:23Yet You know their whole plot, Adonai, against me to slay me. Do not forgive their iniquity or blot out their sin before You. But make them stumble before You. Act against them in the time of Your anger.
- Matthew 26:3Then the ruling kohanim and elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the kohen gadol named Caiaphas.
- Acts 23:14They went to the ruling kohanim and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
- Acts 25:3asking a favor—to have Paul sent to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him on the road.
- Psalms 2:2The kings of earth set themselves up and rulers conspire together against Adonai and against His Anointed One :
- Psalms 3:1A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.
Commentaries on Psalms 64:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Hide me from the secret counsel - They plotted his destruction, and then formed insurrections in order to accomplish it. Workers of iniquity - Those who made sin their labor, their daily employment; it was their occupation and trade. It is supposed that by this title the Babylonians are intended. See Psalm 6:3; Psalm 14:4; Psalm 36:12; Psalm 53:4; Psalm 59:2.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Hide me - Or, more literally, thou wilt hide me. There is both an implied prayer that this might be done, and a confident belief that it would be done. The idea is, Protect me; guard me; make me safe - as one is who is hidden or concealed so that his enemies cannot find him. From the secret counsel - The word used here - סוד sôd - means properly couch, cushion; and then, a divan, a circle of friends sitting together on couches for familiar conversation…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-6These verses form a prayer for rescue from bold and powerful liars.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. insurrection--literally, "uproar," noisy assaults, as well as their secret counsels.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 64
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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