Psalms 38:19
My wanton assailants are strong, those who wrongfully hate me are many,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
In Context
18I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin:
20who render me evil for good, and oppose me, because I make good my goal.
Cross References
Psalms 18:17and saved me from those who hated me – fierce foes, too mighty for me.
Psalms 32:5I began to acknowledge my sin, not concealing my guilt; and the moment I vowed to confess to the Lord my transgression, then you yourself did pardon the guilt of my sin. Selah
Psalms 56:1O God, be gracious to me, for people trample upon me, all the day righting and pressing me.
Psalms 69:4More than the hairs of my head are those who wantonly hate me. More than my bones in number are those who are falsely my foes. That which I never robbed, how am I then to restore?
John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:13-22
Sorrowful Complaints. 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O Lord , do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves… Read the whole commentary →