Psalms 140:2

David's enemies devise mischief in their hearts and continually stir up conflict. It exposes the inward wickedness behind their hostility.

Cross-references · 15

• Ps 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
• Ps 56:6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
• Ps 64:5–6They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”
• Nah 1:11There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
• Mic 2:1–3Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Ps 120:7I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
• Hos 7:6For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
• Prov 12:20Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
• Ps 62:3How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
• Ps 21:11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
• Ps 38:12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
• Ps 2:1–2Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• 1 Sam 24:11–12Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.
• 1 Sam 23:19–24Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
• 1 Sam 26:1–25The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”

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