7 For without cause have they hid for me their net `in' a pit; Without cause have they digged `a pit' for my soul.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands; If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;) Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. Selah
Yea, none that wait for thee shall be put to shame: They shall be put to shame that deal treacherously without cause.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.
The proud have digged pits for me, Who are not according to thy law.
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Commentary on Psalms 35 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 35
David, in this psalm, appeals to the righteous Judge of heaven and earth against his enemies that hated and persecuted him. It is supposed that Saul and his party are the persons he means, for with them he had the greatest struggles.
In singing this psalm, and praying over it, we must take heed of applying it to any little peevish quarrels and enmities of our own, and of expressing by it any uncharitable revengeful resentments of injuries done to us; for Christ has taught us to forgive our enemies and not to pray against them, but to pray for them, as he did; but,
A psalm of David.
Psa 35:1-10
In these verses we have,
Psa 35:11-16
Two very wicked things David here lays to the charge of his enemies, to make good his appeal to God against them-perjury and ingratitude.
Psa 35:17-28
In these verses, as before,