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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 64:7

God shall shoot at them; though I can neither search out or prevent their subtle devices, yet God can and will certainly do it. Suddenly; shortly and unexpectedly.

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See also Psalms 64:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 64:7. _BUT GOD SHALL SHOOT AT THEM_ WITH _AN ARROW_] They endeavour to _trace_ me out, that they may shoot me; but God will _shoot at them_. This, if the Psalm refer to the times of Davi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT GOD SHALL SHOOT AT THEM WITH AN ARROW - That is, Instead of their being able to carry out their purposes of shooting the arrows which they had prepared against others, God will shoot his arrows ag...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHOOT. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Therefore God shoots at them with an arrow; Suddenly are they smitten. The peculiar idiom of the Heb. in this and the following verses conveys the idea that this judgement is the immediate consequen...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    They may scheme, but in the midst of their schemes the arrow of divine judgement pierces them: by this exhibition of God's justice all men are warned, and the righteous are encouraged....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is a Ps. on a familiar theme. The Psalmist's life is in danger. He describes the injurious words and malicious plans of his enemies, and foretells how their overthrow will be a warning to all who...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    The meaning of these verses is clear. In the moment of their imagined success, their deeply-laid schemes just on the point of ripening, a sudden Divine retribution overtakes the wicked, and all their...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 64:8]_ וַ יֹּרֵ֗ם אֱלֹ֫הִ֥ים חֵ֥ץ פִּתְאֹ֑ום...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Strength, or rain. The power (Calmet) and goodness of God, are described with regard to the captives, and converted nations, (Berthier) and the great works of the creation. (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I have not interrupted the progress of these verses, in order that the Reader, after having finished the perusal of the whole, may mark their connection. There is a beautiful climax of order in the re...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7_And God shall shoot an arrow at them _The Psalmist now congratulates himself in the confident persuasion that his prayers have not been without effect, but already answered. Though there was no appe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT GOD SHALL SHOOT AT THEM [WITH] AN ARROW,.... With one or other of his four judgments; famine, pestilence, sword, and wild beasts, Ezekiel 14:21; which he brings upon wicked men; and may be compare...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. Ver. 7. _But God shall shoot at them, &c._] He shall overshoot them in their own bow, pay them home in their own coin; he...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But God shall shoot at them_ Though I can neither search out nor prevent their subtle devices, yet God can, and will certainly do it, for _he ordains his arrows against persecutors, Psalms 7:13_, and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But God shall shoot at them with an arrow, using a weapon like theirs, but with terrible effect; suddenly shall they be wounded, their wounds coming upon them before they are aware of it....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SHALL THEY BE WOUNDED: _ Heb._ their wound shall be...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-10 When God brings upon men the mischiefs they have desired on others, it is weight enough to sink a man to the lowest hell. Those who love cursing, it shall come upon them. Those who behold this s...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 64:7 God H430 shoot H3384 (H8686) arrow H2671 Suddenly H6597 wounded H4347 God - P

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BUT GOD HAS TAKEN NOTE AND WILL TURN THEIR SCHEMES BACK ON THEIR OWN HEADS SO THAT ALL WILL SEE THEIR FOLLY AND RECOGNISE IN THEIR DEMISE THE HAND OF GOD (PSALMS 64:7). His adversaries thought that no...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 64:7 Those who shoot their bitter words like arrows aimed at the innocent (vv. Psalms 64:3) will find that GOD SHOOTS HIS ARROW AT THEM. God brings

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 10:3; 1 Kings 22:34; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:3;...

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