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2Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
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He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? …
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)In this , as in other things, David was a type of Christ, that he suffered before he reigned, was humbled before he was exalted, and that as there were many who loved and valued him, and sought to do him honour, so there were many who hated and envied him, and sought to do him mischief, as appears by these verses, where, I. He gives a character of his enemies, and paints them out in their own colo…
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