The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
Ver. 69. The proud have forged a lie against me] Heb. They have cunningly and finely aspersed me. Mendacium mendacio assuentes, piecing one lie to another, and drawing together iniquity with the cart ropes of vanity. Concinnarunt, artificiose confinxerunt.
But l will keep thy precepts] Notwithstanding their slanders; and the rather.