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69The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
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But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. …
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. …
Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 69-70)David here tells us how he was affected as to the proud and wicked people that were about him. 1. He did not fear their malice, nor was he by it deterred from his duty: They have forged a lie against me . Thus they aimed to take away his good name. Nay, all we have in the world, even life itself, may be brought into danger by those who make no conscience of forging a lie. Those that were proud env…
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