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12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
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Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. …
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
Commentary
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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