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8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
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And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. …
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. …
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a prayer of the afflicted . It was composed by one that was himself afflicted, afflicted with the church and for it; and on those that are of a public spirit afflictions of that kind lie heavier than any other. It is calculated for an afflicted state, and is intended for the use of others that may be in the like distress; for whatsoever things were…
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