7The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
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For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. …
Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, …
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. …
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)We have here the description of a flourishing kingdom. “ Blessed art thou, O land ! when it is thus with thee, when kings, princes, and people, are in their places such as they should be.” It may be taken as a directory both to magistrates and subjects, what both ought to do, or as a panegyric to Hezekiah, who ruled well and saw something of the happy effects of his good government, and it was des…
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