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5Every day they wrest{H8762)} my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: …
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)David, in this psalm, by his faith throws himself into the hands of God, even when he had by his fear and folly thrown himself into the hands of the Philistines; it was when they took him in Gath, whither he fled for fear of Saul, forgetting the quarrel they had with him for killing Goliath; but they soon put him in mid of it, 1 Sam. 21:10 , 11 . Upon that occasion he changed his behaviour, but wi…
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