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21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said{H8804)}, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen{H8804)} it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: …
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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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