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11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
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The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; …
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. …
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. …
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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