For they speak not peace - They seek a quarrel. They are unwilling to be on good terms with others, or to live in peace with them. …

Quiet in the land. — For the construction, compare Isaiah 23:8: The honourable of the earth. They are evidently the pious…

For they speak not peace
Meaning to himself, or any good man; as Joseph's brethren could not to him, ([Reference Gen…

Though the people of God are, and strive to be, quiet, yet it has been common for their enemies to devise deceitful matters against them. David pra…

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

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