Psalms 65:3

Iniquities prevail against me,.... Or, "are mightier than I" (h); this may be understood either of the iniquities of others, his enemies; their "words of iniquities" (i) or iniquitous words, as in the…

Iniquities prevail against me - Margin, as in Hebrew, Words, or matters of iniquities. The literal meaning is words; and the idea may be that words spoken in iniquity, or slanderous words spoken by…

The psalmist here has no particular concern of his own at the throne of grace, but begins with an address to God, as the master of an assembly and the mouth of a congregation; and observe,

I. How he…

Iniquities Lit., words, or, matters of iniquities:many various items of iniquity. Cp. for the same idiom Psa 105:27; Psa 145:5. Virtually the clause is a protasis to the second line:

Though manifold…