I have hated - We have here the same evidence of his piety repeated in another and a stronger form. In the previous verse he had me…

Evil doers. The term carries the idea of violence; it is derived from a root meaning to break in pieces.

By this, he does not mean that he avoids all association with them, for we would have to leave the world if we were to have no fellowship with sinn…

I hate the assembly. The Psalmist protests again how greatly he abhorred the ungodly. Formerly he denied that he had any fellowship with t…

I have hated the congregation of evildoers
That do harm to the persons, characters, or properties of men; and who me…

David here, by the Spirit of prophecy, speaks of himself as a type of Christ. What he says here concerning his own spotless innocence was fully and…

1. Previously, the psalmist offered a prayer against troubles; here, he describes his justice to make his prayer more acceptable.

The …