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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 64:8

The mischief of their hard speeches, and threats, and crafty counsels against me shall be turned against themselves. Shall flee away; partly through abhorrency of them, and partly through fear of being involved in their destruction.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 64:8. _THEIR OWN TONGUE TO FALL UPON THEM-SELVES_] All the plottings, counsels, and curses, they have formed against me, shall come upon themselves....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SO THEY SHALL MAKE THEIR OWN TONGUE TO FALL UPON THEMSELVES - In Psalms 64:3, their tongue is represented as a sword; and here, keeping up the figure, the tongue, as a sword, is represented as falling...

  • 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

    MEN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. SHALL FEAR. Some codices, with six early printed editions, read "will see"....

  • 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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves_ An untenable rendering of an obscure sentence. It is best to render, substantially as R.V., And they are made to stumble, their own tongue...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO THEY SHALL MAKE THEIR OWN TONGUE, &C.— _And their own tongue shall cause it to fall upon them: all that see,_ &c....

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RV 'So shall they be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them,' their evil words coming back upon themselves. See them] 'see their desire upon them': cp. Psalms 54:7. FLEE AWAY] RV 'wag th...

  • 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 64:9]_ וַ יַּכְשִׁיל֣וּהוּ עָלֵ֣ימֹו לְשֹׁונָ֑ם יִ֝תְנֹדֲד֗וּ

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall (h) flee away. (h) To see God's heavy judgments against them, and how he has caught them in their own snares....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Troublest. Protestants, "stillest the noise." (Haydock) --- Troubled. The most obdurate are converted from all countries. (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

    8_And they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves _Pursuing the same subject, he remarks, that the poison concocted in their secret counsels, and which they revealed with their tongues, w...

  • 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

    SO SHALL THEY MAKE THEIR OWN TONGUE TO FALL UPON THEMSELVES,.... The evil things they have wished for, threatened unto, and imprecated on others, shall come upon themselves; the curses they have curse...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. Ver. 8. _So they shall make their own tongue, &c._] According to Pro 12:13 Psalms 59:12. _See Trapp on...

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

    _They shall make their own tongue_, &c. The mischief of their hard speeches, and threats, and crafty counsels against me, shall be turned against themselves. _All that see them shall flee away_ Partly...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves, they are made to fall, their own tongue overcomes them, the organ of their bodies with which they sought to harm others becomes the instrum...

  • 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...

  • 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 64:8 stumble H3782 (H8686) tongue H3956 see H7200 (H8802) away H5074 (H8709) tongue -...

  • 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 Samuel 31:3; Job 15:6; Luke 19:22; Matthew 21:41; Nahum 3:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Flee — Through fear of being involved in their destruction....

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