Psalms 140:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 140:2

Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

KJV

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ASV

Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

WEB

who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long.

YLT

Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble for wars.

DBT

Who devise mischiefs in [their] heart; every day are they banded together for war.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

21 verses on the floor

Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Psalms 36:4
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Psalms 56:6
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms 62:3
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
Psalms 64:5–6
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Keep me from doing as they do, or as they would have me do, or as they promise themselves I shall do." Note, The more malice appears in our enemies against us the more earnest we should be in prayer to God to take us under his protection. In him believers may count upon a security, and may enjoy it and themselves with a holy serenity. Those are safe whom God preserves.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

In general he repeats what I have noticed already, that the hostility to which he was subjected arose from no cause of his. From this we learn that the more wickedly our enemies assail us, and the more of treachery and clandestine acts they manifest, the nearer is the promised aid of the Holy Spirit, who himself dictated this form of prayer by the mouth of David.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

Those who can agree in nothing else can agree to persecute a good man. Herod and Pilate will unite in this, and in this they resemble Satan, who is not divided against himself, all the devils agreeing in Beelzebub.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Words3

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 140:2PSA 120:7 MAT 5:9
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 140:2PSA 120:7 PSA 109:4
PSA 140:2PSA 36:4 PRO 4:16
PSA 140:2PSA 36:4 MIC 2:1
PSA 140:2PSA 120:7 PSA 34:14
PSA 140:2PSA 56:6 PSA 71:10
PSA 140:2PSA 56:6 PSA 59:3
PSA 140:2PSA 36:4 ISA 65:2

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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