The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
The wicked - (Luke 11:53-54; Psalms 10:8.)
The Lord will not leave ... The question at issue between the wicked and the righteous is as a suit at law, wherein God is judge. God will not give the issue against the godly-literally, '(will not) class him with the wicked' ( yarshiy`enuw (H7561)) (Psalms 109:7, margin; 31). When the Christians were exiled under the Emperor Adrian, Tertullian comforted them by saying, 'If we are condemned by the world, we are acquitted by God.'
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