When they were sick This might refer to the case of Absalom, who was much beloved of his father, and for whose life and prosperity he no doubt often prayed, wept, and fasted. David was the fool in the play, and his disappointment all the table-talk of the hypocritical mockers at feasts; it was the song of the drunkards. 2. David was the fool in the play, and his disappointment all the table-talk of the hypocritical mockers at feasts; it was the song of the drunkards. 131, 4, b, carries its subject in itself. Salem Media Group. (2.) Much of his suffering during that time was because of the false accusations made against him by influential people in Sauls court. And he turned around and cursed them. David prays for his own safety, and his enemies' confusion 11. With his prayers he joined humiliation and self-affliction, both in his diet (he fasted, at least from pleasant bread) and in his dress; he clothed himself with sackcloth, thus expressing his grief, not only for their affliction, but for their sin; for this was the guise and practice of a penitent. Salem Media Group. It is supposed that Saul and his party are the persons he means, for with them he had the greatest struggles. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. So this is one of those psalms where David is praying God's judgment and all against his enemies. You can check these in your browser security settings. David mourned for them and sympathized with them in their grief. Psalm 35:13 - NIV - Yet when they were ill, I put - Christianity 2 Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help! How basely and insolently and with what a brutish enmity, and worse than brutish, they had behaved towards him (Psalms 35:15; Psalms 35:16); In my adversity they rejoiced. All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? I humbled my soul with fasting; on the account of them, giving up himself to prayer for them, as follows: and my prayer returned into mine own bosom; that is, he prayed privately and heartily for them, as for himself; he was constant in it, his heart was in it, and he took delight in it, and he was heard and answered; unless the sense should be, that his prayer was slighted by them, and so returned back to himself, as a present despised is returned; but however it was not without its effect, the good for which he prayed for them was returned by the Lord unto him. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. What Every Christian Should Know about the Protestant Reformation. a. Stir up Yourself, and awake to my vindication: David was confident that he was on Gods side in his contention with his enemies, yet he longed for God to actively vindicate him. He prays that God would fight against his enemies, so as to disable them to hurt him, and defeat their designs against him (v. 1), that he would take hold of shield and buckler, for the Lord is a man of war (Exod 15 3), and that he would stand up for his help (v. 2), for he had few that would stand up for him, and, if he had ever so many, they would stand him in no stead without God. This may be taken as a prayer for their repentance, for all penitents are put to shame for their sins and turned back from them. Psalm 36. (2.) Lord, be not far from me (v. 22), as if I were a stranger that thou wert not concerned for; let not me beheld afar off, as the proud are." 4. Easy English Bible Commentary Psalms Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. Psalms 35:13 in Other Translations - Bible Study Tools It was an awful thing when you say, "aha, aha." But, on the contrary, that they might be ashamed and brought to confusion together (v. 26, as before, v. 4); he desires that his innocency might be so cleared that they might be ashamed of the calumnies with which they had loaded him, that his interest might be so confirmed that they might be ashamed of their designs against him and their expectations of his ruin, that they might either be brought to that shame which would be a step towards their reformation or that that might be their portion which would be their everlasting misery. Let their way be dark and slippery: let the angel of the LORD persecute them ( Psalms 35:5-6 ). The pattern also recalls Jesus' feeding of the five thousand (9:16). Salem Media Group. Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal. The king's word is a law, and every thing must be carried with a high hand; he has fields, and vineyards, and preferments, at his disposal, 1 Sam 22 7. 1 O Lord, oppose those who oppose me. The words were, as it were, muttered into his bosom. Who favor my righteous cause; Psalm 35:13 Commentaries: But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, And my prayer kept returning to my bosom. They had carried on their plots against him with a great degree of secresy (v. 15): "I knew it not, till long after, when they themselves gloried in it; but thy eye was upon them in their close cabals and thou art a witness of all they have said and done against me and thy people." b. I. Perjury, v. 11. The "aha, aha" was evidently a nasty kind of a derisive thing. (Comp. How long wilt thou connive at the wickedness of the wicked? Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. Note, [1.] He thought God had forgotten him, had forgotten his promises to him, his covenant with him, his former lovingkindness which he had shown him and which he took to be an earnest of further mercy, had forgotten that there was such a man in the world, who needed and expected relief and succour from him. See Daniel 9:3; Matthew 17:21; Luke 2:37. Ingratitude.
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