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2Yea, in heart ye work{H8799)} wickedness; ye weigh{H8762)} the violence of your hands in the earth.
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Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. …
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have reason to think that this psalm refers to the malice of Saul and his janizaries against David, because it bears the same inscription ( Al-taschith , and Michtam of David ) with that which goes before and that which follows, both which appear, by the title, to have been penned with reference to that persecution through which God preserved him ( Al-taschith—Destroy not ), and therefore the p…
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