Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Mine enemies speak evil against me, saying, When will he die, and his name perish?
Mine enemies say evil of me: When he dieth--his name hath perished!
Mine enemies wish me evil: When will he die, and his name perish?
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Voices3
"My enemies have spoken." Above, the Psalmist asked for healing mercy; here, however, he sets forth the necessity of such a petition, which is caused by enemies. And according to the mystical sense, because the literal is plain, in this passage these words are spoken …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274patristic
Mine enemies speak evil of me,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Ver. 5. Mine enemies speak evil of me. It was their nature to do and speak evil; it was not possible that the child of God could escape them. The viper fastened on Paul's hand: the better the man the more likely, and the more venomous the slander. Evil tongues are busy tongues, and never deal in truth. Jesus was traduced to the utmost, although no offence was in him. When shall he die, and his name perish? They could not be content till he was away.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches6
All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
The walk8
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Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
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Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.
For He has looked with favor on the humble state of His servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed.
And truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached in all the world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
And Jehoiada was buried with the kings in the City of David, because he had done what was good in Israel for God and His temple.
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Psalms 38:12Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
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For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
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Psalms 102:8All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.
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I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
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