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7Behold, they belch out{H8686)} with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear{H8802)}?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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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