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6Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
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Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)In these verses we have, I. David’s representation of his case to God, setting forth the restless rage and malice of his persecutors. He was God’s servant, expressly appointed by him to be what he was, followed his guidance, and aimed at his glory in the way of duty, had lived (as St. Paul speaks) in all good conscience before God unto this day ; and yet there were those that strove with him, that…
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