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11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart{H8686)} not from her streets.
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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. …
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)David here complains of his enemies, whose wicked plots had brought him, though not to his faith’s end, yet to his wits’ end, and prays against them by the spirit of prophecy. Observe here, I. The character he gives of the enemies he feared. They were of the worst sort of men, and his description of them agrees very well with Absalom and his accomplices. 1. He complains of the city of Jerusalem, w…
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