Psalms 35:25
Let them not say in their heart: 'Aha, we have our desire'; let them not say: 'We have swallowed him up.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
24Judge me, O LORD my God, according to Thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
Cross References
2 Samuel 20:19We are of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel; seekest thou to destroy a city and a mother in Israel? why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?'
Psalms 27:12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
Psalms 56:1(56-1) For the Leader; upon Jonath-elem-rehokim. A Psalm of David; Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. (56-2) Be gracious unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up; all the day he fighting oppresseth me.
Psalms 70:3Let them be turned back by reason of their shame that say: 'Aha, aha.'
Psalms 124:3Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
Lamentations 2:16All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say: 'We have swallowed her up; certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.'
Matthew Henry on Psalms 35:18-28
Sorrowful Complaints; David's Appeal and Prayer to God. 17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. 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. 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth… Read the whole commentary →