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8The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
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Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. …
Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses? …
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;) …
The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)This psalm furnishes us with good thoughts for bad times, in which, though the prudent will keep silent (Amos 5:13) because a man may then be made an offender for a word, yet we may comfort ourselves with such suitable meditations and prayers as are here got ready to our hand. I. Let us see here what it is that makes the times bad, and when they may be said to be so. Ask the children of this world…
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