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12They also that seek after my life lay snares{H8762)} for me: and they that seek{H8802)} my hurt speak{H8765)} mischievous things, and imagine{H8799)} deceits all the day long.
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For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: …
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-22)In these verses, I. David complains of the power and malice of his enemies, who, it should seem, not only took occasion from the weakness of his body and the trouble of his mind to insult over him, but took advantage thence to do him a mischief. He has a great deal to say against them, which he humbly offers as a reason why God should appear for him, as Ps. 25:19; Consider my enemies . 1. “They ar…
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