Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
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
Wide mouths pouring wholesale abuse, hoping some falsehood sticks; malice is so blind it sees only what it wishes to see. A man becomes an ass when he brays over another's ruin, a devil when he laughs like a hyena over a good man's slip.
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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