9 The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.
Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
The mouth of a fool `is' ruin to him, And his lips `are' the snare of his soul.
And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, `Let them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;' and the thing is good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.
And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!
Blessings `are' for the head of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.
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Commentary on Psalms 140 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 140
This and the four following psalms are much of a piece, and the scope of them the same with many that we met with in the beginning and middle of the book of Psalms, though with but few of late. They were penned by David (as it should seem) when he was persecuted by Saul; one of them is said to be his "prayer when he was in the cave,' and it is probable that all the rest were penned about the same time. In this psalm,
To the chief musician. A psalm of David.
Psa 140:1-7
In this, as in other things, David was a type of Christ, that he suffered before he reigned, was humbled before he was exalted, and that as there were many who loved and valued him, and sought to do him honour, so there were many who hated and envied him, and sought to do him mischief, as appears by these verses, where,
Psa 140:8-13
Here is the believing foresight David had,