Verse 14
14. Proud… violent… have not set thee before them A threefold description of David’s enemies.
Proud The fundamental idea is contempt of all authority, restraint, or obligation.
Violent One who inspires terror by his power and his contempt of the rights of men a tyrant. The word is always translated terrible, terrible ones, in the prophets, in our common version, conformably to its radical sense.
Assemblies Must be understood of the bands or companies of conspirators, as in Psalms 22:16; Numbers 16:6.
And have not set thee before them This clause gives at once their character and the cause of it. Humanity shudders when such men rule. In this verse David repeats himself from Psalms 54:3, which is not a rare practice.
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