Psalms 140:2

2. Mischiefs in their heart Here is the seat and fountain of all deeds of wrong and violence. Matthew 15:18-19. Satan’s workshop and council chamber are in the hearts “of the children of disobedience.” Ephesians 2:2.

Continually are they gathered together for war Literally, Every day they gather war, or, All the day they are assembled to excite war. The latter is the probable sense, judging from the use of the word gather, in Psalms 56:6; Psalms 59:4; Isaiah 54:15. This also forms a fit parallel to their devising “mischiefs in their heart,” in the previous member. The Septuagint reads, “All the day they prepared war.” The version of the “Common Prayer Book” reads, “They stir up strife all the day long.”