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85The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
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For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 85-87)David’s state was herein a type and figure of the state both of Christ and Christians that he was grievously persecuted; as there are many of his psalms, so there are many of the verses of this psalm, which complain of this, as those here. Here observe, I. The account he gives of his persecutors and their malice against him. 1. They were proud , and in their pride they persecuted him , glorying in…
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