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15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
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The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
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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