Psalm 64:4

New English Translation

in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:14

So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, “Come on! Let’s escape! Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.”

Nehemiah 4:11

Our adversaries also boasted, “Before they are aware or anticipate anything, we will come in among them and kill them, and we will bring this work to a halt!”

Psalm 11:2

For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

Psalm 55:19

God, the one who has reigned as king from long ago, will hear and humiliate them. (Selah) They refuse to change, and do not fear God.

Psalm 55:22

Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.

Psalm 57:5

Rise up above the sky, O God! May your splendor cover the whole earth!

Psalm 64:7

But God will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow.

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierce the heads of his warriors with a spear. They storm forward to scatter us; they shout with joy as if they were plundering the poor with no opposition.

John 19:6

When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” Pilate said, “You take him and crucify him! Certainly I find no reason for an accusation against him!”

1 Samuel 18:11

and Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.

1 Samuel 19:10

Saul tried to nail David to the wall with the spear, but he escaped from Saul’s presence and the spear drove into the wall. David escaped quickly that night.