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Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — David speaks to God during a time of threat, immediately following his plea to hear his complaint and preserve his life from enemy dread. He makes this request just before describing his adversaries sharpening their words like weapons.
The words — תַּ֭סְתִּירֵ/נִי (Tas.ti.re./ni) literally renders "you will hide me," paired with מִ/סּ֣וֹד (mi./Sod), meaning "from the secret counsel." These terms establish the immediate action of concealment and the source of the threat.
The thread — The motif of divine concealment from human malice appears in Psalms 31:20, where God hides the faithful in the secret place of His presence. The phrase "workers of iniquity" recurs in Psalms 59:2 as a category of people from whom deliverance is sought.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that protection from coordinated evil requires direct divine intervention rather than human defense. It asks the reader to identify the specific nature of the threat and direct their request for concealment solely to God.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Cross-references
- Psalms 31:20 You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
- Psalms 59:2 Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.
- Psalms 109:2 For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
- Psalms 143:9 Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD; I flee to You for refuge.
- Psalms 27:5 For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
- Jeremiah 11:19 For 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.”
- Psalms 3:1 A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
- Isaiah 32:2 Each 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.
- Jeremiah 18:23 But 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.
- Psalms 2:2 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One: