Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
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Gill's Exposition
Saying, God hath forsaken him,.... Good men may seem to others to be forsaken of God; and they themselves may sometimes think they are; and they may be forsaken for a small moment, when God withdraws…
Barnes' Notes
Saying, God hath forsaken him - That is, God has given him over; he no longer protects him; he regards him as a wicked man, and we shall therefore, not only be “safe” in our attempts upon his life,…
Two things in general David here prays for - that he might not be confounded and that his enemies and persecutors might be confounded.
I. He prays that he might never be made ashamed of his dependence…
Cambridge Bible
God hath forsaken him Cp. Psa 22:1; Psa 38:21 b.
persecute R.V. pursue. But cp. Psa 69:26; Jer 15:15; Jer 17:18; Jer 20:11.
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