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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.
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.
False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.
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 blessed Noah and his sonnes, and said to them, Bring foorth fruite, and multiplie, and replenish the earth.
And I will make of thee a great nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
And I will make thy seede, as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede be numbred.
Moreouer he brought him forth and said, Looke vp nowe vnto heauen, and tell ye starres, if thou be able to number them: and he said vnto him, So shall thy seede be.
And I will blesse her, & will also giue thee a sonne of her, yea, I will blesse her, and she shall be the mother of nations: Kings also of people shall come of her.
(Shall any thing be hard to the Lord? at the time appointed will I returne vnto thee, euen according to the time of life, and Sarah shall haue a sonne.)
Seeing that Abraham shalbe in deede a great and a mightie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in him?
Therefore will I surely blesse thee, and will greatly multiplie thy seede, as the starres of the heauen, and as the sand which is vpon the sea shore, and thy seede shall possesse the gate of his enemies.
And thy seede shall be as the dust of the earth, & thou shalt spread abroad to the West, and to the East, & to the North, & to the South, and in thee and in thy seede shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
For thou saydest; I will surely doe thee good, and make thy seede as the sande of the sea, which can not be nombred for multitude.
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.
