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12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
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And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; …
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-14)David in these verses expresses, I. His desire towards God, in many petitions. If he cannot now go up to the house of the Lord, yet, wherever he is, he can find a way to the throne of grace by prayer. 1. He humbly bespeaks, because he firmly believes he shall have, a gracious audience: “ Hear, O Lord, when I cry , not only with my heart, but, as one in earnest, with my voice too .” He bespeaks als…
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