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<p id="Chapter35" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 35
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<p id="Ps35_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',35,'1-28');">Psa 35:1-28</a>.
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<p>The Psalmist invokes God's aid, contrasting the hypocrisy, cunning, and malice of his enemies with his integrity and generosity. The imprecations of the first part including a brief notice of their conduct, the fuller exposition of their hypocrisy and malice in the second, and the earnest prayer for deliverance from their scornful triumph in the last, are each closed (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',35,9,10,18,27,28);">Psa 35:9-10, 18, 27-28</a>) with promises of praise for the desired relief, in which his friends will unite. The historical occasion is probably <a href= "#" onclick="return mV('1Sa',24,'1-22');">1Sa 24:1-22</a>.
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<p><b>1-3.</b> God is invoked in the character of a warrior (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',15,3);">Exd 15:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,41);">Deu 32:41</a>).
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<p id="Ps35_3"><b>3. fight against</b>—literally, "devour my devourers."
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<br><br><b>stop the way against</b>—literally, "shut up" (the way), to meet or oppose, etc.
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<br><br><b>I...thy salvation</b>—who saves thee.
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<p id="Ps35_4"><b>4.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',9,17);">Psa 9:17</a>).
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<br><br><b>devise my hurt</b>—purpose for evil to me.
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<p id="Ps35_5"><b>5, 6.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',1,4);">Psa 1:4</a>) —a terrible fate; driven by wind on a slippery path in darkness, and hotly pursued by supernatural violence (<a onclick="return mV('2Sa',24,16);">2Sa 24:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',12,23);">Act 12:23</a>).
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<p id="Ps35_7"><b>7, 8. net in a pit</b>—or, "pit of their net"—or, "net-pit," as "holy hill" for "hill of holiness" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',2,6);">Psa 2:6</a>); a figure from hunting (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',7,15);">Psa 7:15</a>). Their imprecations on impenitent rebels against God need no vindication; His justice and wrath are for such; His mercy for penitents. Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',7,16);">Psa 7:16</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',11,5);">11:5</a>, on the peculiar fate of the wicked here noticed.
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<p id="Ps35_10"><b>10. All my bones</b>—every part.
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<br><br><b>him that spoileth him</b>—(Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',10,2);">Psa 10:2</a>).
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<p id="Ps35_11"><b>11. False witnesses</b>—literally, "Witnesses of injustice and cruelty" (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',11,5);">Psa 11:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',25,19);">25:19</a>).
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<p id="Ps35_12"><b>12-14.</b> Though they rendered evil for good, he showed a tender sympathy in their affliction.
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<br><br><b>spoiling</b>—literally, "bereavement." The usual modes of showing grief are made, as figures, to express his sorrow.
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<p id="Ps35_13"><b>13. prayer...bosom</b>—may denote either the posture—the head bowed—(compare <a onclick="return mV('1Ki',18,42);">1Ki 18:42</a>) —or, that the prayer was in secret. Some think there is a reference to the result—the prayer would benefit him if not them.
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<p id="Ps35_14"><b>14. behaved</b>—literally, "went on"—denoting his habit.
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<br><br><b>heavily</b>—or, "squalidly," his sorrowing occasioning neglect of his person. Altogether, his grief was that of one for a dearly loved relative.
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<p id="Ps35_15"><b>15, 16.</b> On the contrary, they rejoiced in his affliction. <i>Halting,</i> or, "lameness," as in <a onclick="return mV('Psa',38,17);">Psa 38:17</a> for any distress.
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<br><br><b>abjects</b>—either as cripples (compare <a href= "#" onclick="return mV('2Sa',4,4);">2Sa 4:4</a>), contemptible; or, degraded persons, such as had been beaten (compare <a onclick="return mV('Job',30,'1-8');">Job 30:1-8</a>).
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<br><br><b>I knew it not</b>—either the persons, or, reasons of such conduct.
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<br><br><b>tear me, and ceased not</b>—literally, "were not silent"—showing that the <i>tearing</i> meant slandering.
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<p id="Ps35_16"><b>16. mockers</b>—who were hired to make sport at feasts (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',28,21);">Pro 28:21</a>).
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<p id="Ps35_17"><b>17. darling</b>—(Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,20,21);">Psa 22:20-21</a>).
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<p id="Ps35_18"><b>18.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,22);">Psa 22:22</a>).
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<p id="Ps35_19"><b>19. enemies wrongfully</b>—by false and slanderous imputations.
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<br><br><b>wink with the eye</b>—an insulting gesture (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',6,13);">Pro 6:13</a>).
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<br><br><b>without a cause</b>—manifests more malice than having a wrong cause.
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<p id="Ps35_20"><b>20. deceitful matters</b>—or, "words of deceit."
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<br><br><b>quiet in the land</b>—the pious lovers of peace.
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<p id="Ps35_21"><b>21.</b> On the gesture compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,7);">Psa 22:7</a>; and on the expressions of malicious triumph, compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',10,13);">Psa 10:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',28,3);">28:3</a>.
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<p id="Ps35_23"><b>23, 24.</b> (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',7,6);">Psa 7:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',26,1);">26:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Th',1,6);">2Th 1:6</a>). God's righteous government is the hope of the pious and terror of the wicked.
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<p id="Ps35_25"><b>25. swallowed him up</b>—utterly destroyed him (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',21,9);">Psa 21:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Lam',2,16);">Lam 2:16</a>).
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<p id="Ps35_26"><b>26. clothed</b>—covered wholly (<a onclick="return mV('Job',8,22);">Job 8:22</a>).
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<p id="Ps35_27"><b>27. favour...cause</b>—delight in it, as vindicated by Thee.
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<br><br><b>Let the Lord,</b> etc.—Let Him be greatly praised for His care of the just.
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<p id="Ps35_28"><b>28.</b> In this praise of God's equitable government (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',5,8);">Psa 5:8</a>) the writer promises ever to engage.
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