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11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. …
A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: …
That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-20)David here fastens upon some one particular person that was worse than the rest of his enemies, and the ringleader of them, and in a devout and pious manner, not from a principle of malice and revenge, but in a holy zeal for God and against sin and with an eye to the enemies of Christ, particularly Judas who betrayed him, whose sin was greater than Pilate’s that condemned him (John 19:11), he impr…
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