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3For, lo, they lie in wait{H8804)} for my soul: the mighty are gathered{H8799)} against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
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They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The title of this psalm acquaints us particularly with the occasion on which it was penned; it was when Saul sent a party of his guards to beset David’s house in the night, that they might seize him and kill him; we have the story 1 Sam. 19:11. It was when his hostilities against David were newly begun, and he had but just before narrowly escaped Saul’s javelin. These first eruptions of Saul’s mal…
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