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Psalm 64:6

Listen to Psalm 64:6
6 They make evil plans and say, "We have planned a perfect crime." The human heart and mind are a mystery.

Psalm 64:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 64:6

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 David and Christ; they sought for proper time and opportunity of committing the iniquities they were bent upon, and even searched for new sins, being inventors of evil things, ( Romans 1:30 ) ;

they accomplish a diligent search;
diligently searched out the perfect man, and found him; and also false witnesses against him, and carried their point; which was especially true with respect to Christ;

both the inward [thought] of everyone [of them], and the heart, [is]
deep;
being full of cunning, craftiness and wickedness, so as not to be searched out and fully known; see ( Psalms 5:9 ) ( Jeremiah 17:9 ) .

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Psalm 64:6 In-Context

4 They are quick to spread their shameless lies; they destroy good people with cowardly slander.
5 They encourage each other in their evil plots; they talk about where they will place their traps. "No one can see them," they say.
6 They make evil plans and say, "We have planned a perfect crime." The human heart and mind are a mystery.
7 But God shoots his arrows at them, and suddenly they are wounded.
8 He will destroy them because of those words; all who see them will shake their heads.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.

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