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3The wicked are estranged{H8804)} from the womb: they go astray{H8804)} as soon as they be born, speaking{H8802)} lies.
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Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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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