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3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. …
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is the unspeakable comfort of all good people that, whoever is against them, God is for them, and to him they may apply as to one that is pleased to concern himself for them. Thus David here. I. He refers himself to God’s judgment (Ps. 109:1): “ Hold not thy peace , but let my sentence come forth from thy presence , Ps. 17:2. Delay not to give judgment upon the appeal made to thee.” God saw wha…
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