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8Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
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The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. …
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. …
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)Here is the believing foresight David had, I. Of the shame and confusion of persecutors. 1. Their disappointment. This he prays for (Ps. 140:8), that their lusts might not be gratified, their lust of ambition, envy, and revenge: “ Grant not, O Lord! the desires of the wicked , but frustrate them; let them not see the ruin of my interest, which they so earnestly wish to see; but hear the voice of m…
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