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10They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)We may observe, in these verses, I. What David prays for. Being compassed about with enemies that sought his life, he prays to God to preserve him safely through all their attempts against him, to the crown to which he was anointed. This prayer is both a prediction of the preservation of Christ through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation, to the glories and joys of his exalted st…
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