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2Hide{H8686)} me from the secret counsel of the wicked{H8688)}; from the insurrection of the workers{H8802)} of iniquity:
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Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. …
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)David, in these verses, puts in before God a representation of his own danger and of his enemies’ character, to enforce his petition that God would protect him and punish them. I. He earnestly begs of God to preserve him ( Ps. 64:1 , 2 ): Hear my voice, O God! in my prayer ; that is, grant me the thing I pray for, and this is it, Lord, preserve my life from fear of the enemy , that is, fro the ene…
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