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10For mine enemies{H8802)} speak{H8804)} against me; and they that lay wait{H8802)} for my soul take counsel{H8738)} together,

Psalms 71:10

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  • For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

  • They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

  • Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, …

  • They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-13)

Two things in general David here prays for—that he might not be confounded and that his enemies and persecutors might be confounded. I. He prays that he might never be made ashamed of his dependence upon God nor disappointed in his believing expectations from him. With this petition every true believer may come boldly to the throne of grace; for God will never disappoint the hope that is of his ow…

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