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13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
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For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)In the Ps. 31:1-8 David had appealed to God’s righteousness, and pleaded his relation to him and dependence on him; here he appeals to his mercy, and pleads the greatness of his own misery, which made his case the proper object of that mercy. Observe, I. The complaint he makes of his trouble and distress (Ps. 31:9): “ Have mercy upon me, O Lord! for I am in trouble , and need thy mercy.” The remem…
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