the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Psalms 35:11
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Malicious witnesses come forward;they question me about things I do not know.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.
Men without mercy stand up to testify. They ask me things I do not know.
Violent men perjure themselves, and falsely accuse me.
Malicious witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I do not know.
Malicious witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.
Cruell witnesses did rise vp: they asked of me things that I knewe not.
Malicious witnesses rise up,Who ask me of things that I do not know.
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
Liars accuse me of crimes I know nothing about.
Malicious witnesses come forward, asking me things about which I know nothing.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.
There are witnesses trying to harm me. They ask me questions that I know nothing about.
False witnesses rose up; they charged me with things that I knew not.
Evil people testify against me and accuse me of crimes I know nothing about.
Violent witnesses rise up; they ask me concerning what I do not know.
Witnesses of violence rise up; they asked me what I did not know;
False witnesses are rysen vp, & laye to my charge thinges that I knowe not.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
False witnesses did rise vp they layd to my charge things that I knew not.
False witnesse did rise vp: they layde thinges to my charge that I know not.
Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I new not.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
Wickid witnessis risynge axiden me thingis, whiche Y knewe not.
Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I don't know.
False witnesses arose; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not.
Fierce witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know.
Malicious witnesses testify against me. They accuse me of crimes I know nothing about.
People come telling lies. They ask me of things that I do not know.
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me about things I do not know.
There rise up witnesses helping forward violence and wrong, What I know not, they demand of me:
(34-11) Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.
Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not.
Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.
Hostile accusers appear out of nowhere, they stand up and badger me. They pay me back misery for mercy, leaving my soul empty.
Malicious witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I do not know.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
False witnesses: Heb. Witnesses of wrong, Psalms 27:12, 1 Samuel 24:9, 1 Samuel 25:10, Matthew 26:59, Matthew 26:60, Acts 6:13, Acts 24:5, Acts 24:6, Acts 24:12, Acts 24:13
laid: etc. Heb. asked me
Reciprocal: Genesis 39:14 - he came Exodus 23:1 - an unrighteous witness Deuteronomy 19:16 - a false witness 1 Samuel 17:28 - I know 1 Kings 21:13 - the men of Belial Psalms 55:3 - for they Psalms 64:6 - search Psalms 119:69 - proud Psalms 120:2 - from lying lips Proverbs 6:19 - A false Proverbs 24:28 - not Jeremiah 37:14 - said Matthew 5:11 - when Mark 14:55 - sought Luke 23:2 - forbidding Acts 25:7 - and laid Romans 8:33 - Who
Cross-References
And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.
Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?
That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
False witnesses did rise up,.... Against David, saying he sought the hurt of Saul, 1 Samuel 24:9, as did against David's antitype, the Lord Jesus Christ, Matthew 26:59; and against his apostles,
Acts 24:5; and very frequently do they rise up and bear false witness against his people, which is a very heinous crime;
they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not: such as David was not conscious of, never thought of doing, much less attempted to do; as the taking away of Saul's life, the contrary of which appeared by his cutting off his skirt only when he was in his hands, and taking away his spear from his bolster when he could have taken off his head; and such were the things laid to the charge of the Messiah, David's son, who knew no sin, nor did any; and the like are exhibited against his members, who go through good report and bad report, and whose good conversation is falsely accused by malicious men.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
False witnesses did rise up - Margin, “witnesses of wrong.” The Hebrew is, “witnesses of “violence,”” חמס châmâs. That is, they were persons who, in what they said of me, were guilty of injustice and wrong. Their conduct was injurious to me as an act of “violence” would be.
They laid to my charge - Margin, as in Hebrew: “they asked me.” The word “asked” here seems to be used in the sense of “demand;” that is, they demanded an “answer” to what was said. The usage appears to have been derived from courts, where the forms of trial may have been in the way of question and answer - the mode of accusation having been in the form of “asking” how a thing was, or whether it was so; and the defense being regarded as an “answer” to such an inquiry. Hence, it is synonymous with our expression of laying to the charge of anyone; or of accusing anyone.
Things that I knew not - Of which I had no knowledge; which never came into my mind. What those charges were the psalmist does not specify; but it is not uncommon for a good man to be falsely accused, and we are certain that such things occurred in the life of David.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 35:11. False witnesses did rise up — There is no doubt that several of this kind were found to depose against the life of David; and we know that the wicked Jews employed such against the life of Christ. See Matthew 26:59-60.
They laid to my charge things that I knew not. — They produced the most unfounded charges; things of which I had never before heard.
