Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
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Gill's Exposition
Day and night they go about it, upon the walls thereof,.... That is, "violence" and "strife" go about the walls of it continually; men of violence and contention are the only watchmen of it: a city…
Barnes' Notes
Destroy, O Lord - The word rendered “destroy,” properly means to “swallow up;” to “devour” with the idea of greediness. Isa 28:4; Exo 7:12; Jon 1:17; Jer 51:34. Then it is used in the sense of…
David here complains of his enemies, whose wicked plots had brought him, though not to his faith's end, yet to his wits' end, and prays against them by the spirit of prophecy. Observe here,
I. The…
The plaintive pleading of the opening verses suddenly gives way to a fierce outburst of indignation.
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