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13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. …
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)David here, upon the foregoing representation of the inhumanity and impiety of the oppressors, grounds an address to God, wherein observe, I. What he prays for. 1. That God would himself appear (Ps. 10:12): “ Arise, O Lord! O God! lift up thy hand , manifest thy presence and providence in the affairs of this lower world. Arise, O Lord ! to the confusion of those who say that thou hidest thy face.…
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