“ With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. ”
With hypocritical mockers in feasts - The word rendered hypocritical here - חנף chânêph - properly means people “profane, impious, abandoned.” It refers to such persons as are commonly foun...
With hypocritical mockers in (o) feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. (o) The word signifies cakes: meaning that the proud courtiers at their dainty feasts scoff, rail, and conspire his de...
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...
hypocritical mockers in feasts. Figure of speech Ellipsis (of Repetition). "hypocrites [at feasts] mocking at the feast". App-6.
16. Among perfidious jesters. Others translate it, With hypocrites, but in my opinion David simply relates the combination of his enemies. And the meaning of the expression is to this eff...
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. With hypocritical mockers in feasts - These verses seem to be prophetic of the treatment of Christ. They did tear me, and I...
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, &c.— But in my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together; they gathered about me, crouching, when I did not know it; they rent me without ceasing: Psa...
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. With hypocritical mockers in feasts - rather, 'with hypocritical (or profane) mockers for a cake' х maa`owg (...
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...
With hypocritical mockers in feasts. — This clause is full of difficulty. The LXX. and Vulg. have, “they tempted me, they mocked me with a mocking”; Symmachus, “in hypocrisy, with feigned words”; C...
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...
Look at the cross, and behold this most strikingly fulfilled. Where indeed shall we look for it in the affliction of any other? Matthew 27:39-44 .
With hypocritical mockers in feasts ,.... That is, the abjects gathered, themselves together with such; these may design Saul's courtiers, his parasites and flatterers, and who were hypocrites in re...
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. Ver. 16. With hypocritical mockers in feasts ] Cum sannionibus placentae vel cibi, with hypocritical mockers for a cak...
But in mine adversity Hebrew, בצלעי, betzalgni, in my halting , that is, when I was in great danger of falling into mischief. When I had any sickness or ill success in my affairs, and was almost l...
Prayer for Deliverance; Sorrowful Complaints. 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I kn...
Hypocritical, or profane , as this word signifies, Job 8:13 , Job 13:16 15:34 17:8 , and, as some add, in all other places. Mockers; whose common practice it is to scoff at and deride others...
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...
The Hypocrisy and Malice of the Wicked
1 Corinthians 5:8 ; 1 Samuel 20:24-42 ; Acts 7:54 ; Isaiah 1:14 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; Job 16:9 ; John 18:28 ; Lamentations 2:16 ; Psalms 37:12
Mockers — They made themselves buffoons and jesters, and accustomed themselves to mock and deride David, that thereby they might gain admittance to the tables of great men, which was all they sough...