Psalm 86:14

14 O God! de hovaardigen staan tegen mij op, en de vergaderingen der tirannen zoeken mijn ziel; en zij stellen U niet voor hun ogen.

Psalm 86:14 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 86:14

O God, the proud are risen against me
As all men naturally are, and as all are without the grace of God; and because they are, they deal in proud wrath: as, through the pride of their heart, they seek not after God; so, through the same, they persecute his people, treating them with the utmost contempt, and as the offscouring of all things. Jarchi interprets this particularly of Doeg and Ahithophel:

and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul;
or "terrible" ^F19 ones, who breathed out nothing but cruelty, threatenings, and slaughter; and who were many, and got together in bodies, and entered into combinations and conspiracies; and whom nothing would satisfy but the taking away of his life, which they sought after; see ( Psalms 22:12-16 )

and have not set thee before them;
they did not consider the omniscience of God, that he knew and took notice of all they did; nor his omnipresence, that he was everywhere, and there was no fleeing from him; nor his omnipotence, who was able to crush them to pieces; nor his justice, which will render tribulation to them that trouble his; nor his goodness, which should lead to repentance; nor had they any fear of him, nor respect to his glory: in short, they were like the unjust judge, who neither feared God nor regarded men, ( Luke 18:4 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (Myuyre) "terribilium", Montanus; so some in Vatablus, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Psalm 86:14 In-Context

12 Heere, mijn God! ik zal U met mijn ganse hart loven, en ik zal Uw Naam eren in eeuwigheid;

13 Want Uw goedertierenheid is groot over mij; en Gij hebt mijn ziel uit het onderste des grafs uitgerukt.

14 O God! de hovaardigen staan tegen mij op, en de vergaderingen der tirannen zoeken mijn ziel; en zij stellen U niet voor hun ogen.

15 Maar Gij, Heere! zijt een barmhartig en genadig God, lankmoedig, en groot van goedertierenheid en waarheid.

16 Wend U tot mij, en zijt mij genadig, geef Uw knecht Uw sterkte, en verlos den zoon Uwer dienstmaagd.