Psalm 64:1 ¶ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.» Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: 4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. 5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
This Psalm can be applied in context to David when he was being
harassed by King Saul or when Absalom rebelled against him and to Christ who
faced the wicked counsel of the Jewish leadership who wanted to eliminate their
Messiah from the scene.
David makes similar pleas in earlier Psalms.
Psalm 27:7 ¶ Hear, O LORD,
when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psalm 55:1 ¶ «To the chief
Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David.» Give ear to my prayer, O God;
and hide not thyself from my supplication.
David will make similar pleas again and so will Jeremiah in his
Lamentations.
Lamentations 3:55 ¶ I
called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear
at my breathing, at my cry.
Verse 2 suggests that this was a Psalm regarding the insurrection
of Absalom but particularly to those traitors who followed him. In any event, look at the contrast between
verse 3 and two verses in Proverbs as well as a Psalm we have reviewed.
Proverbs 12:18 ¶ There is
that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is
health.
Proverbs 30:14 There is a
generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour
the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Psalm 57:4 My soul is among
lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men,
whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
The rest of his remarks in this passage suggest the intent and
diligence of those who wish to do evil. We can easily see how this not only
applies to Christ’s struggle but also to our own. There are many enemies in
this country who are very clever and sharp with their words and the control of
language that we have foolishly allowed them to have. Their tongues are as
sharp as knives. We see them almost every day on the news.
They are able to act with seeming impunity, protected even by law
enforcement as they commit their pernicious deeds and take their wicked actions
against us. In their hateful ideology they regard the man or woman, regardless
of race or ethnic background, who values faith in God, family, and hard work as
essential to being a complete, a whole person, as the bourgeoisie, a French
Marxist word denoting the hated, by them, middle class and insinuate that the
proletariat, those “blessed” individuals in their view who claim to be
oppressed by the former, have the right to everything they can take, including
the lives of the bourgeoisie.
Their words are sharp as daggers, penetrating as spears, and
suggest that Nazi-like concentration camps and ovens await the class of people
they wish to erase. They still hate the Jews and want to see them all die after
eliminating their country. These people
are wicked, evil beyond belief, wanting to murder their own babies for any
reason or no reason at all, wanting to destroy the way of life that has brought
us prosperity, wanting to disregard even sciences like genetics as bourgeoisie
science (see the Soviet agronomist, Lysenko) and ignore facts of biology, to
destroy the natural environment under the guise of saving it (see the
destruction caused by their car batteries and wind turbines in production, use,
and disposals), and to promote every sexual perversion known to mankind. They
will make you lose your job, your money, and your life to justify their
disgusting ideology. They engage in perpetual revolution as Marx called
for even fighting their own previously successful acts of revolution such as
the transgender movement battling feminism as in women’s sports. They truly
continue the wish of Goethe’s devil character in Faust, Mephistopheles,
when he said, “Everything that exists deserves to perish.”
We pray for mercy from God as we oppose these people.
Psalm 64:7 ¶ But God shall
shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall
upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. 9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the
work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. 10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and
shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
The wicked have shot with their arrows, bitter words, in verse 3
and God will shoot with his arrow, as explained frequently in His Bible,
judgment. The wicked’s words will turn back on them and they will run. Men will
consider the judgment of God, if they are sane, and consider their own doing.
But the righteous shall be glad in God and trust Him with all of those are
right in their heart glorying in God.
Verse 7 has some cross-references from earlier Psalms 7 and 18.
Please read the entire Psalm to see the context but look at the imagery in
these verses.
Psalm 7:11 God judgeth the
righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
12 If he turn not, he will
whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments
of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Psalm 18:14 Yea, he sent
out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited
them.
Notice these cross-references for verse 8.
Proverbs 12:13 ¶ The wicked
is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of
trouble.
Proverbs 18:7 A fool’s
mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
For verse 9 I thought this was interesting to consider, that all
men have the capacity to see the judgment of God and think on it even though
many are struck blind by their own sin nature. See how God’s judgment at the
end of human history does and doesn’t elicit this response in Psalm 64:9.
Revelation 16:9 And men
were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power
over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory…11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of
their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
But later in Revelation;
Revelation 11:13 And the
same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell,
and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were
affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Other times it is mentioned that those who are righteous and
upright will glory in God for verse 10.
Psalm 32:11 Be glad in the
LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in
heart.
Psalm 33:1 ¶ Rejoice in the
LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
No matter what our enemies do our praise should be in God.
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