For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.
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
"For they speak not peace." They love it not; how can they speak it? They are such troublers themselves that they cannot judge others to be peaceable. Out of the mouth comes what is in the heart. Riotous men charge others with sedition.
His enemies hated him without cause, spoke no peace to him, and when he fell they shouted and huzzaed as if their longing were at last satisfied. The crowd follows fortune and execrates the fallen, even as they cried against the Son of David.
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Commenting on Psalm 35:17-28