Bible Strands
Psalms 64:5
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The ambushers speak privately to one another while preparing to shoot the innocent from concealment.
The words — יְחַזְּקוּ (ye.cha.ze.ku) translates as “they strengthen,” and מוֹקְשִׁים (mok.shim) means “snares,” describing the active preparation of hidden traps.
The thread — The text records the perpetrators asking “Who will see them?” while concealing their plots, a pattern repeated in Psalms 140:5, Psalms 10:11, and Job 22:13 where hidden nets and doubted divine oversight appear.
Why it lands — The verse states that conspirators boast of their secrecy and ask who will perceive their traps, requiring the reader to acknowledge that human attempts at hidden violence operate without divine interference.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Cross-references
- Psalms 140:5 The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
- Psalms 10:11 He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- Job 22:13 Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
- Ezekiel 8:12 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
- Psalms 59:7 See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
- Psalms 94:7 They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
- Exodus 15:9 The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
- Numbers 22:6 So please come now and put a curse on this people, because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land; for I know that those you bless are blessed, and those you curse are cursed.”
- 1 Samuel 23:19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
- Psalms 124:7 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.