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Psalm 35:19 KJV
Psalms · chapter 35 · verse 19
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.Psalm 35:19 · King James Version
Psalm 35:19 in context
17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wrongfullysheqeran untruthH8267 →
- enemiesʼôyêbhatingH341 →
- rejoicesâmachprobably to brighten upH8055 →
- winkqâratsto pinchH7169 →
- hatesânêʼto hateH8130 →
- eyeʻayinan eyeH5869 →
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In these verses, as before, I. David describes the great injustice, malice, and insolence, of his persecutors, pleading this with God as a reason why he should protect him from them and appear against them. 1. They were very unrighteous;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-28