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Psalms 35:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

Let destruction: All the verbs in these verses (Psalms 35:4-8), in the original, are in the future tense, as a prediction, and should probably be so rendered; though as that tense is frequently used in Hebrew for the imperative, most translators, both ancient and modern, have considered them as an imprecation. Psalms 64:7, Psalms 73:18-20; Proverbs 29:1; Luke 21:34; 1 Thessalonians 5:3

at unawares: Heb. which he knoweth not of

net: Psalms 7:15-16, Psalms 57:6, Psalms 141:9-10; Proverbs 5:22

into: 1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Samuel 31:2-4; 2 Samuel 17:2-4, 2 Samuel 17:23, 2 Samuel 18:14-15; Esther 7:10; Matthew 27:3-5

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