With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
Parallel translations
- WEB They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
- KJV They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
- NKJV They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.
- NASB They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
- NLT They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.
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Quick answer
The enemies craftily conspire against God's people, whom He cherishes. The attack targets those God holds dear.
Overview
The plotting nations scheme against Israel, here called God's 'cherished ones' or treasured people. The phrase underscores the intimate covenant love God has for His own. To assault those God treasures is to invite His protective response, a comfort to all whom God counts as His beloved in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 64:2Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
- Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
- Ps 31:20You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
- Isa 7:6–7‘Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and divide it among ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.’
- Ps 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Ps 10:9He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
- Luke 20:20–23So they watched Him closely and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They were hoping to catch Him in His words in order to hand Him over to the rule and authority of the governor.
- Ps 56:6They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
- Col 3:3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 1 Sam 13:19And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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