Psalms 35:15

But in my downfall they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; there gathered themselves together against me abject wretches, whom I knew not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Leeser Tanakh

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

14As though he had been to me a friend or a brother did I walk about: as one that mourneth for a mother did I sorrowfully bend down my head.

16With hypocritical babbling mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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Cross References

Job 30:1But now they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks.

Psalms 7:2(7:3) Lest he tear like a lion my soul, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

Psalms 35:8May then destruction come upon each of them at unawares; and may his net that he hath hidden catch himself: in [utter] destruction let him fall therein.

Psalms 38:17(38:18) For I am prepared for [my] downfall, and my pain is continually before me.

Psalms 57:4(57:5) My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down [in the midst of] those that send out flames, [those] sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharpened sword.

Psalms 71:10For my enemies speak of me; and they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

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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