Psalms 35:5-15

5 Let them be ¹like chaff before the wind, With the angel of the LORD driving them on.

6 Let their way be dark and ²slippery, With the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

7 For ³without cause they ⁴hid their net for me; Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

8 Let ⁵destruction come upon him unawares *, And ⁶let the net which he hid catch himself; Into that very ⁷destruction let him fall.

9 And my soul shall ⁸rejoice in the LORD; It shall ⁹exult in His salvation.

10 All my ¹⁰bones will say, "LORD, ¹¹who is like You, Who delivers the afflicted from him ¹²who is too strong for him, And ¹³the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?"

11 ¹⁴Malicious witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I do not know.

12 They ¹⁵repay me evil for good, To the bereavement of my soul.

13 But as for me, ¹⁶when they were sick, my ¹⁷clothing was sackcloth; I ¹⁸humbled my soul with fasting, And my ¹⁹prayer kept returning to my bosom.

14 I went about as though it were my friend or brother; I ²⁰bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

15 But ²¹at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; The ²²smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me, They ²³slandered me without ceasing.

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Psalms 35:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 35

\\<<[A Psalm] of David>>\\. This psalm seems to have been written by David, when he was persecuted by Saul; and when many false charges were brought against him by his courtiers; and when he was the scorn and derision of the people; the subject of it is pretty much of the same kind with the seventh psalm, and might be written about the same time that was, and on the same occasion; and it may be applied to the church and people of God in like cases. There is a passage in it, Ps 35:19, which our Lord seems to refer to and apply to himself, Joh 15:25; and some interpret the whole of it concerning him. The Arabic version calls it a prophecy of the incarnation; though there does not appear any thing in it applicable to that.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

1. Job 21:18; Psalms 83:13; Isaiah 29:5
2. Psalms 73:18; Jeremiah 23:12
3. Psalms 69:4; Psalms 109:3; Psalms 140:5
4. Psalms 9:15
5. Psalms 55:23; Isaiah 47:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
6. Psalms 9:15
7. Psalms 73:18
8. Isaiah 61:10
9. Psalms 9:14; Psalms 13:5; Luke 1:47
10. Psalms 51:8
11. Exodus 15:11; Psalms 86:8; Micah 7:18
12. Psalms 18:17
13. Psalms 37:14; Psalms 109:16
14. Psalms 27:12
15. Psalms 38:20; Psalms 109:5; Jeremiah 18:20; John 10:32
16. Job 30:25
17. Psalms 69:11
18. Psalms 69:10
19. Matthew 10:13; Luke 10:6
20. Psalms 38:6
21. Obadiah 12
22. Job 30:1, 8, 12
23. Psalms 7:2

Footnotes 5

[a]. "Pit" has been transposed from line above
[b]. Or "dressed in black"
[c]. Or "limping"
[d]. Or "smitten ones"
[e]. Lit "tore"

Psalms 35:5-15

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Psalms 35:5-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 35

Cross References 23

Footnotes 5