Psalms 35:12
May arrogant feet not approach me, and may the hand of the sinner not disturb me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
In Context
11Extend your mercy before those who know you, and your justice to these, who are upright in heart.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:15And again, Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him to me on the bed, so that he may be killed.”
1 Samuel 22:13And Saul said to him: “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse? For you gave him bread and a sword, and you consulted the Lord for him, so that he might rise up against me, continuing as a traitor even to this day.”
1 Chronicles 19:4And so Hanun shaved the heads and beards of the servants of David, and he cut away their tunics from the buttocks to the feet, and he sent them away.
Psalms 109:5The Lord is at your right hand. He has broken kings in the day of his wrath.
Proverbs 17:13Whoever repays evil for good, evil shall not withdraw from his house.
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 →