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14O God, the proud are risen{H8804)} against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought{H8765)} after my soul; and have not set{H8804)} thee before them.
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For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: …
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
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, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-17)David is here going on in his prayer. I. He gives glory to God; for we ought in our prayers to praise him, ascribing kingdom, power, and glory, to him, with the most humble and reverent adorations. 1. As a being of unparalleled perfection, such a one that there is none like him nor any to be compared with him, Ps. 86:8. Among the gods , the false gods, whom the heathens worshipped, the angels, the…
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