23Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
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Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. …
Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. …
And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-23)The prophet here, as sometimes before, brings in his own affairs, but very much for instruction to us. I. See here what are the common methods of the persecutors. We may see this in Jeremiah’s enemies, Jer. 18:18. 1. They laid their heads together to consult what they should do against him, both to be revenged on him for what he had said and to stop his mouth for the future: They said, Come and le…
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