Psalms 86

Psalms 86:5

Voice - Their clamours and threats, and slanders. Cast - They lay many crimes to my charge.

Psalms 86:6

The terrors - Deadly terrors; such as seize upon men in the agonies of death.

Psalms 86:10

Tempest - From the force and fury of mine enemies.

Psalms 86:11

Destroy - Destroy them by dividing. Tongues - Their speech, as thou didst at Babel, Genesis 11:9, their votes, and opinions, and counsels. Which was eminently done among Absalom’s followers, 2 Samuel 17:23. Strife - Injustice and fraud, oppression and contention rule here, instead of that public justice and peace which I established. City - In Jerusalem; which in Absalom’s time was a sink of all sins.

Psalms 86:12

They - Violence and strife. Go about - Do encompass it, as it were a garrison. Walls - In the outward parts, as also in the very midst of it. So that all parts were horribly corrupted.

Psalms 86:13

Streets - The places of buying and selling, and of public commerce.

Psalms 86:14

Hated - With a manifest or old hatred.

Psalms 86:15

Equal - Not in power, but in reputation, for wisdom, and influence upon my people. Guide - Whose counsel I highly prized, and constantly followed. All which agrees to Achitophel.

Psalms 86:17

Them - All such as pretend to religion, and have manifestly apostatized both from the profession and practice of it. The grave - Cut off by a sudden and violent death. Among them - Heb. in their inwards. Wickedness is deeply rooted in their hearts.