Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.
David's enemies are not mere dupes swept along by Saul's court; he distinguishes carefully between those thoughtlessly caught up in hatred through ignorance and those deliberate malefactors who wickedly conspired to destroy an innocent man for favor. Against the latter, he calls on God for justice, knowing his own innocence and relying on God's promise spoken through Samuel.
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Commenting on Psalm 35:1-28
False witnesses have always been the ungodly's favorite weapon, used against our Master and used against us without fail. David stood innocent and ignorant of the charges, loyal beyond measure, yet accused of sedition against the Lord's anointed. When your hands are so clean that no dirt clings to them, you rest secure even in the teeth of lies.
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False witnesses rose up and swore to treasons David never committed, and ingratitude compounded the injury: they repaid good service with evil. This happened to the Son of David too. Such persecution shows how the innocent lie at the mercy of the wicked, yet it teaches us that God holds even bad men's consciences in check, or the harm would be far greater.
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Commenting on Psalm 35:11-16