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26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion{H8799)} together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed{H8799)} with shame and dishonour that magnify{H8688)} themselves against me.
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For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
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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