Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
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
"Let their way be dark and slippery." What terrors are gathered here! No light, no foothold, and a fierce avenger at their heels! What a doom is appointed for the enemies of God! They may rage and rave today, but how altered will be their plight ere long!
David was God's servant, walking in duty and conscience, yet his enemies hunted him like a beast, dug pits, laid nets, and devised his ruin with unwearied malice. They could hide their snares from him, but never from God; and though he faced an unequal match in their strength, his appeal is not to his own arm but to the Lord's.
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Commenting on Psalm 35:1-10