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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 35:17-28

In these verses, as before, I. David describes the great injustice, malice, and insolence, of his persecutors, pleading this with God as a reason why he should protect him from them and appear against them. 1. They were very unrighteous; they were his enemies wrongfully, for he never gave them any provocation: They hated h 2be1 im without a cause; nay, for that for which they ought rather to have loved and honoured him. This is quoted, with application to Christ, and is said to be fulfilled in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 35:24

Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness ,.... Either that righteousness of his, by which he justifies his people, which Christ has wrought out, God has accepted of, and imputes; and which, though revealed in the Gospel, was witnessed to by the law and prophets, and was known to the saints under the Old Testament, and particularly to David; see Romans 4:6 ; or the perfection of his justice, his essential righteousness displayed in all his works and actions, and in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, ah, so would we have it ,.... Or we have what our souls wished for and desired: the sense of the petition is the same with Psalm 27:12 ; let them not say, we have swallowed him up ; as roaring lions swallow down their prey, to which he had compared them, Psalm 35:17 ; and as wicked men eat up the Lord's people as they eat bread, Psalm 14:4 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 35:26

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together ,.... In a body, as one man; as they gathered together against him, Psalm 35:15 ; so he entreats they might together be brought to shame and confusion, they not being able to execute their designs; their schemes being broken, their counsels defeated, and they exposed to contempt; that rejoice at mine hurt ; the same with his adversity, or halting, Psalm 35:15 ; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 35:24

Judge me, O Lord my God - The manner of his appeal shows the strong confidence he had in his own innocence. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 35:25

Swallowed him up - בלענוהו billaanuhu , we have gulped him down. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 35:26

Let them be ashamed - This may be a prophetic declaration against Saul and his courtiers. They were ashamed, confounded, clothed with shame, and dishonored. All these took place in Saul's last battle with the Philistines, where he lost his crown and his life, and came to a most dishonorable end. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 35:24

Verse 24 24.Judege me, O Jehovah my God! David here confirms the prayer of the preceding verse that God would be his defender, and would maintain his righteous cause. Having been for a time subjected to suffering as one who had been forsaken and forgotten, he sets before himself the righteousness of God, which forbids that he should altogether abandon the upright and the just. It is, therefore, not simply a prayer, but a solemn appeal to God, that as he is righteous, he would manifest his... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 35:26

Verse 26 26.Let those who rejoice at thy hurt be ashamed and confounded together. This imprecation has already been expounded; and it is only necessary to remark, that there is peculiar force in the expression, together, or at once. It shows that it was not only one or two, but a great multitude, who waged war against him, and that he yielded not to the influence of fear, but believed that as soon as God should lift up his hand, he could at one stroke easily overthrow them all. When it is said... read more

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