Ps. 64.6 (the deep)

The inward nature / and the human heart
how deep they are. 

This statement, standing alone, is ambivalent. It is neither a good nor an evil. Perhaps today we tend to, in light of a ‘modern individual’, desire (or, revel) in exploring and displaying the “depths” of man’s heart. That, however, is not the position in this psalm. Rather, leading up to this statement, the secrecy and profundity of man has been utterly wicked. It is but a pretext for exploitation, deceit and destruction. When the psalmist seeks ‘depth’, he seeks it, not in himself (or, in his own heart or inward nature), but in God (vs. 2). And, he seeks it as a mode of protection from those who are in hiding and have hidden their snares so competently that no one could (or, would) locate them. We might say that the “depth” of the human heart mirrors “the deep” over which God sits enthroned—that sea of chaos that constantly threatens to overwhelm the created order. It is from this “deep” that “tongues are whetted like swords”, “arrows of poisonous words are strung”, and the “blameless” are shot