Psalms 35:15

When I stumbled, they gleefully gathered, strangers gathered around me, and tore at me without ceasing,

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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 if for my friend or my brother. I went about bowed and in mourning, as one who laments his mother.

16impiously mocking and mocking, bearing their teeth at me.

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Cross References

Psalms 7:2or like lions they will tear me to pieces, and rend me, past hope of rescue.

Psalms 35:8Upon them may ruin come unawares; may the net which they hid catch themselves, and into the pit may they fall.

Psalms 38:17For I am ready to fall, my pain forsakes me never.

Psalms 57:4In the midst of lions I lie, who devour human prey. Their teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue is a sharpened sword.

Psalms 71:10For my foes whisper against me, they who watch me 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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