Psalms 35:12
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
In Context
11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
1 Samuel 22:13And Saul said unto him, Why have all of you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
1 Chronicles 19:4Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
Psalms 38:21Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Psalms 109:5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Proverbs 17:13Whoso rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart 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 →