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Give them according to their deeds - Deal righteously with them. Recompense them as they deserve.
And according to the wickedne…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Give them according to their deeds. —The justice of the lex talionis was deeply impressed on the mind of Israel,…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
And a just mind feels that it should be so. God is a judge, and he will punish sin, and gracious people do not wish that it should be otherwise. Ev…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
Give them according to their works. Having thus requested God to consider his innocence, the Psalmist thunders forth a curse against his e…
John Gill
JohnGill
Give them according to their deeds
According to the demerit of them, which is death, even death eternal;
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
David is very earnest in prayer. Observe his faith in prayer; God is my rock, on whom I build my hope. Believers should not rest until the…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
1. In the previous psalm, the psalmist showed the trust he had in God; now he adds a psalm of prayer so that he might not fail in that trust…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes