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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 13:4

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; [and] those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

Ver. 4. Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him] This David frequently deprecateth as a great evil, because God's honour was concerned in it, and would suffer by it. As unskilful hunters, shooting at wild beasts, do sometimes kill a man; so persecutors, shooting at saints, hit Christ, reproach him; and this the saints are very aware of.

And those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved] Compose comedies out of my tragedies, et iram Dei ad calumniam rapiant. The wicked are vindictive and implacable, sick of the devil's disease, επιχαιρεκακια, rejoicing at other men's harms, revelling in other men's ruins; but this is to enrage God, and hasten wrath, Proverbs 24:17,18 .

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