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19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)David, encouraged by the promises he had been meditating upon, here renews his addresses to God, and concludes the psalm, as he began, with professions of dependence upon God and desire towards him. I. He lays open before God the calamitous condition he was in. His feet were in the net, held fast and entangled, so that he could not extricate himself out of his difficulties, Ps. 25:15. He was desol…
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