Psalm 64:2 {63:3}
Good News Translation
Protect me from the plots of the wicked, from mobs of evil people.

New Revised Standard Version
Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the scheming of evildoers,

Contemporary English Version
Keep me safe from secret plots of corrupt and evil gangs.

New American Bible
Hide me from the malicious crowd, the mob of evildoers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.

Hide

Psalm 27:5 For he hath hidden me in his tabernacle; in the day of evils, he hath protected me in the secret place of his tabernacle.

Psalm 31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

Psalm 143:9 Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord, to thee have I fled:

Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.

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Psalm 56:6 They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

Psalm 109:2,3 O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me. . . .

Genesis 4:6 And the Lord said to him: Why art thou angry? and why is thy countenance fallen?

1 Samuel 23:22,23 Go, therefore, I pray you, and use all diligence, and curiously inquire, and consider the place where his foot is, and who hath seen him there: for he thinketh of me, that I lie craftily in wait for him. . . .

2 Samuel 17:2-4 And coming upon him (for he is now weary, and weak handed) I will defeat him: and when all the people is put to flight that is with him, I will kill the king who will be left alone. . . .

Jeremiah 11:19 And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

Jeremiah 18:23 But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

Matthew 26:3,4 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: . . .

Acts 23:14,15 Who came to the chief priests and the ancients and said: We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing till we have slain Paul. . . .

Acts 25:3 Requesting favour against him, that he would command him to be brought to Jerusalem, laying wait to kill him in the way.

insurrection

Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Psalm 3:1 The psalm of David when he fled from the face of his son Absalom. [2] Why, O Lord, are they multiplied that afflict me? many are they who rise up against me.

Luke 23:18-23 But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: . . .

Context
The Hurtful Tongue
1Unto the end, a psalm for David. [2] Hear O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy. 2Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.3For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,…
Cross References
Genesis 49:6
Let not my soul go into their counsel, nor my glory be in their assembly: because in their fury they slew a man, and in their self-will they undermined a wall.

Psalm 56:6
They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

Psalm 59:2
Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalm 83:3
They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.

Daniel 6:7
All the princes of the kingdom, the magistrates, and governors, the senators, and judges, have consulted together, that an imperial decree, and an edict be published: That whosoever shall ask any petition of any god, or man, for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of the lions.

Habakkuk 3:14
Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the head of his warriors, them that came out as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their joy was like that of him that devoureth the poor man in secret.

Psalm 64:1
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