Verse 9
"Jehovah hath heard my supplication;
Jehovah will receive my prayer.
All mine enemies shall be put to shame and sore troubled:
They shall turn back, they shall be put to shame suddenly."
Notice the future tense in the second clause, which might lend some credibility to the suggestion made in the previous verse, that David had first proved his repentance by thrusting away all evil companions either prior to or in close connection with God's forgiveness of his sins.
It is paradoxical that the best people on earth, namely, the children of God, should have any enemies whatsoever. Yet it is eternally true that the righteous are indeed continually encompassed with bitter, determined, and ruthless enemies.
Why? Why did Cain hate his brother Able and climax it with his murder? "Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous" (1 John 3:12). Servants of the devil hate the Christ; and as Jesus said, "Ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake" (Luke 21:17). Thus, the very name Christian is sufficient to incur the hatred and persecution of any true follower of Christ. All of the apostles experienced the world's savage and vicious hatred and warned all of us that, "All that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" (2 Timothy 3:12).
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