Psalms 35:15

But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

In Context

14My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

16Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

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Cross References

Job 30:1But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

Psalms 7:2\7:1\O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;

Psalms 35:8Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

Psalms 38:17\38:16\I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

Psalms 57:4\57:3\He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

Psalms 71:10For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

Matthew Henry on Psalms 35:12-17

Prayer for Deliverance; Sorrowful Complaints. 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves… Read the whole commentary →

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