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3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
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The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. …
Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)In these verses David is very earnest in prayer. I. He prays that God would graciously hear and answer him, now that, in his distress, he called upon him, Ps. 28:1 , 2 . Observe his faith in prayer: O Lord, my rock , denoting his belief of God’s power (he is a rock) and his dependence upon that power—“He is my rock , on whom I build my hope.” Observe his fervency in prayer: “ To thee will I cry ,…
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