They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
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Gill's Exposition
They that hate me without a cause,.... As the Jews did; see Joh 15:18; for he did no injury to the persons or properties of men; but went about continually doing good, both to their souls and bodies;…
Barnes' Notes
They that hate me without a cause - Without any just reason; without any provocation on my part. There were many such in the case of David, for to those who rose up against him in the time of Saul,…
In these verses David complains of his troubles, intermixing with those complaints some requests for relief.
I. His complaints are very sad, and he pours them out before the Lord, as one that hoped…
Cambridge Bible
The number and the virulence of his foes, and the groundlessness of their hostility. For the language comp. Psa 40:12; Psa 35:19; Psa 38:19. The quotation in Joh 15:25 agrees with the LXX.
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