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19Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
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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