Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 64:6
They accomplish, etc.] better, 'we have perfected, say they, a careful device.'
They accomplish, etc.] better, 'we have perfected, say they, a careful device.'
Verse Psalms 64:6. _THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES; THEY ACCOMPLISH A DILIGENT_ _SEARCH_] The word חפש _chaphash_, which is used _three_ times, as a noun and a verb, in this sentence, signifies _to strip...
THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES - They search deep; they examine plans; they rack their invention to accomplish it. The original word - חפשׂ _châphaś_ - is a word which is used to denote the act of explo...
Psalms 64 The Wicked and their End _ 1. The power of the wicked displaced (Psalms 64:1)_ 2. Their sudden end (Psalms 64:7) This Psalm stands in contrast with the preceding ones. The outward circum...
LXIV. PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AGAINST TREACHEROUS FOES. Psalms 64:6. The text needs correction. We may read, They plan evil deeds: they have hidden a well-devised plot, for the inner man is incurab...
INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'aval._ App-44....
They plan deeds of iniquity; We have perfected (say they) a consummate plan; And each man's innermost thought and heart is deep. The form of the verb is anomalous, and it is uncertain whether it is...
Prayer for preservation from malicious enemies, who are plotting against the Psalmist with subtle treachery and resolute determination....
THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES, &C.— _They disguise their iniquities, and hide them with deep dissimulation: the inside and heart of every one of them is deep._ See Mudge and Schultens....
PSALMS 64 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Prayer against the Evil Tongues of Conspirators, who are Destroyed by Their Own Weapon. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 64:1-4 a, Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies, whose...
_THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES; THEY ACCOMPLISH A DILIGENT SEARCH: BOTH THE INWARD THOUGHT OF EVERY ONE OF THEM, AND THE HEART, IS DEEP._ -When all the plot is ripe, then ensues sudden destruction of th...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES — _i.e., they plan wicked schemes._ THEY ACCOMPLISH A DILIGENT SEARCH. — See margin, which indicates the difficulty in this clause. The versions and some MSS. also suggest...
_[Psalms 64:7]_ יַֽחְפְּֽשׂוּ ־עֹולֹ֗ת תַּ֭מְנוּ חֵ֣פֶשׂ מְחֻפָּ֑שׂ
Psalms 64:1 FAMILIAR notes are struck in this psalm, which has no very distinctive features. Complaint of secret slanderers, the comparison of their words to arrows and swords, their concealed snares,...
DELIVERANCE FROM POWERFUL FOES Psalms 64:1 Another of the psalms dating from Saul's persecution. There are two stanzas. PRAYER FOR PRESERVATION, PSALMS 64:1 Insult, sarcasm, and slander still fall...
This is the cry of distress, and yet not of despair. The singer is beset by wily enemies who plan and plot against him with malicious and persistent determination. In great detail he describes their m...
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one (g) [of them], and the heart, [is] deep. (g) There is no way so secret and subtle to do hurt, whi...
_Justice. Because there thou wilt fulfil thy promises, and requirest the greatest composure and attention, Ephesians ii. 12, 22. (Berthier) --- Nothing defiled can enter into heaven, Apocalypse xxi. ...
Here are marked the deep-laid schemes of the wicked. And when we read the history of Christ's trial, and mockings, and scourgings, the preludes to his death; who but must see the great and sacred Obje...
Psalms 64 chiefly speaks of the unceasing crafty hatred of the enemy and cries to God: God will shoot at them suddenly. The result of this judgment will be that all shall fear and declare the work of...
THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES,.... The Targum adds, "to destroy the just.'' Either occasions against them, by charging them with sin and hiring false witnesses against them, as did the enemies both of...
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward [thought] of every one [of them], and the heart, [is] deep. Ver. 6. _They search out iniquities_] _Abstrusissima quaeque...
_They encourage themselves_ Hebrew, יחזקו, _jechazeku, they strengthen_, or _fortify themselves_, by firm resolutions, by assured confidence of success, by uniting their counsels and forces together,...
They search out iniquities, inventing, planning, evil acts; THEY ACCOMPLISH A DILIGENT SEARCH, completing the plan which they have conceived. BOTH THE INWARD THOUGHT OF EVERYONE OF THEM AND THE HEART...
INVOCATION OF GOD AGAINST THE DECEIT OF MEN. To the chief musician, a psalm of David, composed at one of the periods of his life when he was annoyed above the ordinary by the trickery of men who prof...
THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES, THEY ACCOMPLISH: Or, we are consumed by that which they have thoroughly searched A DILIGENT SEARCH: _ Heb._ a search, searched...
1-6 The psalmist earnestly begs of God to preserve him from disquieting fear. The tongue is a little member, but it boasts great things. The upright man is the mark at which the wicked aim, they cann...
THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES; they study diligently and constantly to find out either matter, which they may lay to my charge, or new ways and means of doing me mischief. THEY ACCOMPLISH A DILIGENT SEAR...
Psalms 64:6 devise H2664 (H8799) iniquities H5766 perfected H8552 (H8804) shrewd H2664 (H8794) scheme H2665 inward...
THE PSALMISTS DESCRIPTION OF THE WHISPERERS (64-5-6). Here we have a description of ‘things done by them in secret' (Ephesians 5:12). They carefully prepare an evil scheme, seeking to ensure that it i...
CONTENTS: David prays for deliverance from the malicious designs of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God will turn the tables on the adversaries of His people and defeat them at their ow...
REFLECTIONS. This psalm describes at large the plots and insinuations of David's enemies for his destruction. They took secret counsel against him, and he cried and prayed, on the contrary, that God w...
_Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy._ MAN’S ENMITY TOWARDS MAN We see this enmity here in three aspects. I. Piously dreaded. David prays against it. He pray...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 64:1. This individual lament shares with Psalms 63:1 a confidence in God’s victory over those who bring troubles on the righteous. The psalm h
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_. “_To the chief Musician:_” see Introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Psalm of David_,” The structure and character of the psalm confirm the title as to its Davidic authorship....
EXPOSITION AT a time of great danger from domestic enemies, who threaten insurrection (Psalms 64:2), the psalmist first complains to God, and entreats his aid (Psalms 64:1); after which he boldly deno...
Psa 64:1-10, another psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from the fear of the enemy (Psalms 64:1). You know, fear is a horrible thing. And fear can actually get hold...
1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Samuel 22:9; 1 Samuel 24:9; 1 Samuel 25:10; D
Iniquities — They study diligently, to find new ways of doing mischief. Deep — Cunning, both to contrive and conceal, and to execute their plots....