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3For strangers{H8801)} are risen up{H8804)} against me, and oppressors seek{H8765)} after my soul: they have not set{H8804)} God before them. Selah.
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O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)We may observe here, 1. The great distress that David was now in, which the title gives an account of. The Ziphim came of their own accord, and informed Saul where David was, with a promise to deliver him into his hand. One would have thought that when David had retired into the country he would not be pursued, into a desert country he would not be discovered, and into his own country he would not…
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