Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay [me]: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal [thus] with them in the time of thine anger.
Ver. 23. Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel.] Though I know it not, yet thou art privy to it, and canst prevent it; for wisdom and might are thine. Dan 2:20
To slay me.] All malice is bloody.
Forgive not their iniquity.] He knew their sin to be unpardonable; and therefore prayeth for vengeance upon them unavoidable. This was fulfilled upon the Jews by the Babylonians in respect of Jeremiah, and by the Romans in respect of Christ.
Neither blot out their sin from thy sight.] A heavy curse. Woe to such as whose debts stand uncrossed in God's book. Their sins may sleep a long time, like a sleeping debt, not called for of many years; as Saul's sin in slaying the Gibeonites was not punished till forty years after; as Joab's killing of Abner slept all David's days. Men's consciences also may sleep (in such a case) for a season; but their damnation sleepeth not, nor can their condition be safe till God have wiped out their sins for his own sake, till he have crossed out the black lines of our iniquities with the red lines of his Son's blood, and taken out of his coffers so much as may fully satisfy, &c.