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5They encourage{H8762)} themselves in an evil matter: they commune{H8762)} of laying snares privily{H8800)}; they say{H8804)}, Who shall see{H8799)} them?
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The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
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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