Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
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Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
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Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
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(64-3) Hide me from the council of evil-doers; from the tumult of the workers of iniquity;
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Passages linked to Psalms 64:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 31:20 In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
- Psalms 59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
- Psalms 143:9 Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
- Psalms 27:5 For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
- Psalms 109:2-3 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
- Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
- Psalms 3:1 Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
- Isaiah 32:2 A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
- Jeremiah 18:23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity. Don’t 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 a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
- Psalms 56:6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
- Acts 25:3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
- Genesis 4:6 Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?
- 2 Samuel 17:2-4 I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only, and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.” The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
- Matthew 26:3-4 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
- Acts 23:14-15 They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
- 1 Samuel 23:22-23 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning. See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
- Luke 23:18-23 But they all cried out together, saying, “Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!”— one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder. Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!” He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.” But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, from their secret malice.
That is, from their secret malice.
To wit, their outward violence.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of…
Psa 64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
Ver. 2. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked] Or, from the mystery of evil doers, from the Church malignant, that mystery of iniquity. See the contrary, Psa 111:1.
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From the insurrection, &c.] Heb. from their tumult, their hurricum, their open force, as well as from their secret fraud. Let thy protection equal their projects, who turn every stone to undo me.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain From the secret counsel, i.e. from the ill effects…
From the secret counsel, i.e. from the ill effects of their plots against me.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked,....…
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked,.... The word used denotes both the place where wicked men meet together for consultation; see Gen 49:6; and the counsel itself they there take; from the bad effects of which the psalmist desired to be hid and preserved. So Saul and his courtiers secretly took counsel against David, and the Jews against Christ, and that very privily and secretly; see Mat 26:3;
from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity; their noise, rage, and tumult; see Psa 2:1. The former phrase denotes their secret machinations and designs, and this their open violence; and the persons that entered into such measures are no other than evildoers and workers of iniquity; though they might be under a profession of religion, as David's enemies, and the Jews, who were Christ's enemies, were, Mat 7:22; and who are further described in the next verses.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 2. Hide me from the secret counsel] They…
Verse 2. Hide 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 labour, their daily employment; it was their occupation and trade. It is supposed that by this title the Babylonians are intended. See Ps 6:3; Ps 14:4; Ps 36:12; Ps 53:4; Ps 59:2.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Hide me - Or, more literally, thou wilt hide…
Hide 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, or for counsel. See Psa 25:14, note; Psa 55:14, note; compare Job 15:8; Job 29:4. Here the reference is to the consultations of his enemies for the purpose of doing him wrong. Of course, as they took this counsel together, he could not know it, and the word secret is not improperly applied to it. The idea here is, that although he did not know what that counsel or purpose was, or what was the result of their consultations, yet God knew, and he could guard him against it.
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Of the wicked - Not the wicked in general, but his particular foes who were endeavoring to destroy him. Luther renders this, “from the assembling of the wicked.”
From the insurrection - The word used here - רגשׁה rigshâh - means properly a “noisy crowd, a multitude.” The allusion is to such a crowd, such a disorderly and violent rabble, as constituted a mob. He was in danger not only from the secret purposes of the more calm and thoughtful of his enemies who were plotting against him, but from the excited passions of the multitude, and thus his life was in double danger. If he escaped the one, he had no security that he would escape the other. So the Redeemer was exposed to a double danger. There was the danger arising from the secret plottings of the Scribes and Pharisees assembled in council, and there was also the danger arising from the infuriated passions of the multitude. The former calmly laid the plan for putting him to death by a judicial trial; the others took up stones to stone him, or cried, “Crucify him, crucify him!” The word insurrection here does not well express the idea. The word tumult would better represent the meaning of the original.
Of the workers of iniquity - That is, of those who were arrayed against him.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain insurrection--literally, "uproar," noisy assaults, as well as their secret…
insurrection--literally, "uproar," noisy assaults, as well as their secret counsels.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 2. Secret counsel—Conspiracy, dark plotting.
2. Secret counsel—Conspiracy, dark plotting.
Insurrection—The word signifies a tumultuous assembly, a rushing together of the masses, as Psa_2:1; a noisy crowd, Psa_55:14. The secret counsel of Saul and the leaders of the nation gave birth to open demonstrations on the part of the people, both which are here deprecated.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. Thou wilt hide me from the secret council…
2. Thou wilt hide me from the secret council of evil doers,
From the tumultuous throng of workers of iniquity.
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i.e. from secret machinations and open attack. The cognate verbs are used together in Psa_2:1-2 (tumultuously assemble, R.V. marg.; take counsel). Cp. Psa_31:13. The same words occur in Psa_55:14, but in a good sense.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2) Secret counsel . . . insurrection—Better, secret league…
(2) Secret counsel . . . insurrection—Better, secret league (sôd) . . . noisy gathering (rigshah). For sôd see Psa_25:14, and for rigshah see Note to Psa_2:2.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked;…
Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity. The first danger is from secret plots, which David knows to be going on against his authority. (2Sa_15:1-12) The second, and greater danger, will be from open insurrection. (2Sa_17:1-14)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 2. Hide me from the secret counsel of…
Ver. 2. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked. From their hidden snares hide me. Circumvent their counsel; let their secrets be met by thy secret providence, their counsels of malice by thy counsels of love.
From the insurrection of the workers of iniquity. When their secret counsels break forth into clamorous tumults, be thou still my preserver. When they think evil, let thy divine thoughts defeat them; and when they do evil, let thy powerful justice overthrow them: in both cases, let me be out of reach of their cruel hand, and even out of sight of their evil eye. It is a good thing to conquer malicious foes, but a better thing still to be screened from all conflict with them, by being hidden from the strife. The Lord knows how to give his people peace, and when he wills to make quiet, he is more than a match for all disturbers, and can defeat alike their deep laid plots and their overt hostilities.
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Ver. 2. (first clause). Applied to Satan.
I. The danger considered.
1. The enemy, wicked, mighty, malicious, experienced.
2. His counsel. He tempts cunningly, and with deliberation.
3. The secrecy of it. He may be exciting others against me, or sowing evil in myself. II. The deliverance implored. Hide me.
1. Keep me from being tempted.
2. Keep me from evil when tempted.
3. Bring me out of it all unharmed.
4. Meanwhile, let me be in thy secret place. III. The consolation of faith.
1. God does preserve praying ones.
2. Our enemy is his enemy.
3. He has preserved us.
4. We are his own.
5. His honour is involved.
Psalms 64:3*
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