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5I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
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I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. …
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? …
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul and his party, who, to give some colour to their unjust rage, represented him as a very bad man, and falsely accused him of many high crimes and misdemeanors, dressed him up in the skins of wild beasts that they might bait him. Innocency itself is no fence to the name, though it is to the bosom, against the darts of calumny…
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