Psalms 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, ah, so would we have it,.... Or we have what our souls wished for and desired: the sense of the petition is the same with Psa 27:12;

let them not say, we have…

Let them not say in their hearts - Let them not congratulate themselves on the result; let them not feel that they have triumphed; let them not, under thy government, come off victorious in doing…

In these verses, as before,

I. David describes the great injustice, malice, and insolence, of his persecutors, pleading this with God as a reason why he should protect him from them and appear against…

Ah, so would we have it Lit. Aha, our desire!

We have swallowed him up Destroying every trace of his existence. Cp. Psa 124:3; Pro 1:12; Lam 2:16.