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4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
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They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. …
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. …
Commentary
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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