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19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice{H8799)} over me: neither let them wink{H8799)} with the eye that hate{H8802)} me without a cause.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-28)In these verses, as before, I. David describes the great injustice, malice, and insolence, of his persecutors, pleading this with God as a reason why he should protect him from them and appear against them. 1. They were very unrighteous; they were his enemies wrongfully, for he never gave them any provocation: They hated h 2be1 im without a cause ; nay, for that for which they ought rather to have…
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