May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
David cries out from the depths of terror, having endured one danger after another, and makes his whole case rest upon trust in the Lord alone. He brings before God nothing but faith, for he understands that hope placed in God cannot possibly be disappointed, and on that confidence alone he builds his prayer for deliverance.
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Commenting on Psalm 31:1-24
In this section of the Psalm he renews his prayers, urging the same pleas as at first: earnest wrestlers attempt over and over again the same means of gaining their point.
Commenting on Psalm 31:14
A Christian prayer indeed, and a good one. Lying lips must be silenced, whether God leads them to repentance, covers them with shame, or renders their words worthless. But mark the cruelty: these slanderers speak cutting things, grievous things that wound a good man's reputation, and they do it with a contempt that stinks of pride. The proud think themselves cream while despising the righteous as mere scum. What unbearable impertinence, what detestable arrogance, that such unworthy wretches should dare to judge men beside whom they are nothing but chaff.
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