Psalms 59:4
For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.
BSB
ASV
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: Awake thou to help me, and behold.
KJV
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
They run and prepare themselves without my fault,.... Or, "without sin in me"; or "without punishment in them"; so the same word is rendered, 1Sa 28:10. "They run", in an hostile manner, "against me", as the Syriac version adds; or like dogs up and down, about the city, to find him and kill him; see Psa 59:
He knew his enemies were wicked transgressors, wilful, malicious, and hardened in their transgressions both against God and man, and therefore he sues for justice against them, judgment without mercy. Let not those expect to find mercy who never showed mercy, for such are wicked transgressors.
Note, (1.) The innocency of the godly will not secure them from the malignity of the wicked. Those that are harmless like doves, yet, for Christ's sake, are hated of all men, as if they were noxious like serpents, and obnoxious accordingly.
They run and prepare themselves without my fault. They are all alive and active, they are swift to shed blood. They prepare and use their best tactics; they besiege me in my house, and lay their ambuscades as for some notable enemy. They come up fully armed to the attack, and assail me with all the vigour and skill of a host about to storm a castle; and all for no cause, but out of gratuitous malice.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 35:23Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
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Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
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Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
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For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
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“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
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Psalms 35:19Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
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But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.