Let their way be dark — Margin, as in Hebrew: “darkness.” That is, let them not be able to see where they go, what danger they incu…

Dark and slippery. —See margin. Delitzsch supposes an allusion to the passage of the Red Sea, but the picture suggests rather the …

Let their way be dark and slippery
In which they run before the angel, chasing and pursuing them; so that they know …

It is nothing new for the most righteous people, and the most righteous cause, to meet with enemies. This is a fruit of the old enmity in the seed …

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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