With hypocritical mockers in feasts - The word rendered hypocritical here — חנף chânêph — properly means people “…

With hypocritical mockers in feasts. —This clause is full of difficulty. The Septuagint and Vulgate render it as: “they tempted me…

Among treacherous jesters. Others translate it, With hypocrites, but in my opinion, David simply describes the alliance of his en…

With hypocritical mockers in feasts That is, the abjects gathered, themselves together with such; these may design Saul's courtiers…

Call a man ungrateful, and you can call him no worse: this was the character of David's enemies. In this, he was a type of Christ. David shows how …

1. In the preceding psalms, the dignity of the just was made manifest; now help is implored against the persecutions of the wicked.

He…