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4They that hate{H8802)} me without a cause are more{H8804)} than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy{H8688)} me, being mine enemies{H8802)} wrongfully, are mighty{H8804)}: then I restored{H8686)} that which I took not away{H8804)}.

Psalms 69:4

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

  • Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

  • They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. …

  • False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. …

  • For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

In these verses David complains of his troubles, intermixing with those complaints some requests for relief. I. His complaints are very sad, and he pours them out before the Lord, as one that hoped thus to ease himself of a burden that lay very heaven upon him. 1. He complains of the deep impressions that his troubles made upon his spirit ( Ps. 69:1 , 2 ): “The waters of affliction , those bitter…

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