“ Falseb witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. ”
False witnesses did rise up - Margin, “witnesses of wrong.” The Hebrew is, “witnesses of “violence,”” חמס châmâs . That is, they were persons who, in what they said of me, were guilty of inj...
(i) False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not. (i) That would not permit me to purge myself.
XXXV. Prayer against Treacherous Foes by One who is quiet in the land . Psalms 35:6 b should replace Psalms 35:5 b . Chaff driven before the wind may well suggest the image of the angel pu...
False witnesses . "Many of them". Compare Matthew 26:60 ; Matthew 26:61 ; Matthew 27:40 ; Mark 14:55-59 .
11. Violent witnesses (709) rise up. The Hebrew is, they shall rise up; but in using the future tense, the Psalmist intimates that he is speaking of what he had suffered for a long ti...
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. False witnesses did rise up - There is no doubt that several of this kind were found to depose against the life of David;...
False witnesses did rise up, &c.— False witnesses will arise; so the Hebrew speaks in the future; and the verbs in the two next periods are also future; to intimate that the prophet was speak...
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. The second strophe, in which the sufferer complains of the malice of his enemies ( Psalms 35:11-16 ), in order to mo...
This is a prayer for the defeat and destruction of malignant enemies, whom the Psalmist has formerly befriended, and who now treat him with ungrateful cruelty. The circumstances are partly similar to...
Psalms 35:1-28 THE psalmist's life is in danger. He is the victim of ungrateful hatred. False accusations of crimes that he never dreamed of are brought against him. He professes innocence, and ap...
Rescuing the Poor and Needy Psalms 35:1-17 This psalm dates from the Sauline persecution, or else from the disturbed condition of the kingdom in David's later years. Each of the three divisions...
There is agony in this song. The singer is sore beset with enemies. They are striving with him, fighting against him. They are plotting against him, treacherously spreading a net for his feet. He cri...
I do not think it enough to prove that these words were spoken in a spirit of prophecy, wholly referring to Christ; but I would desire the Reader to remark, with me, the gracious love of the Holy Gho...
False witnesses did rise up ,.... Against David, saying he sought the hurt of Saul, 1 Samuel 24:9 , as did against David's antitype, the Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 26:59 ; and against his apostles...
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not. Ver. 11. False witnesses did rise up ] So they did afterward against the Lord Christ and sundry of his faithful servan...
They laid to my charge things I knew not They accused me to Saul of treacherous designs against his crown and life, and of other crimes of which I was wholly innocent and ignorant. They rewarded m...
Prayer for Deliverance; Sorrowful Complaints. 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I kn...
They accused me to Saul of treachery and designs against his crown and life, and other crimes whereof I was wholly innocent and ignorant.
Brought Before the Judges He Is Questioned About Crimes Of Which He Knows Nothing, And That By Those To Whom He Had Shown Nothing But Kindness Who Are Now Determined To Bring Him Down ( Psalms 35:11...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm, If It be as the inscription tells us a psalm of David, must have been composed either during his persecution by Saul or during the revolt of Absalom. It is usual to connect...
Psalms 35:1 . Fight against them. This is another martial ode, or war song, in which David prays for victory over the army of Saul that came to fight against him, and for confusion to those about...
EXPOSITION A PSALM ascribed to David by the title, and with many characteristics of his early style—abrupt, impassioned, full of lively and graphic images, and full of transitions The picture...
False witnesses, literally, "witnesses of violence," did rise up, with unjust accusations; they laid to my charge things that I knew not, of which he knew himself to be innocent.
1 Samuel 24:9 ; 1 Samuel 25:10 ; Acts 24:12 ; Acts 24:13 ; Acts 24:5 ; Acts 24:6 ; Acts 6:13 ; Matthew 26:59 ; Matthew 26:60 ; Psalms 27:12