15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
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The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-16)This is spoken, not so much by way of counsel to wicked men (they will not receive instruction, Prov. 23:9), but rather in defiance of them, for the encouragement of good people that are threatened by them. See here, 1. The designs of the wicked against the righteous, and the success they promise themselves in those designs. The plot is laid deeply: They lay wait against the dwelling of the righte…
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