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86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
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Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
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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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