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Selected Verse: Psalms 25:19 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 25:19	Strong Concordance	Consider [07200] mine enemies [0341]; for they are many [07231]; and they hate [08130] me with cruel [02555] hatred [08135].
	King James	Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Consider mine enemies - See Psa 25:2. It is evident that one source of the trouble referred to in the psalm was the fact that he had cruel foes, and that he was apprehensive of their designs. The train of thought seems to be, in accordance with the remarks above, that enemies actually surrounded him, and threatened him, and that this fact suggested the inquiry whether this was not permitted on account of his sins. this had led him to think of the sins of his past life, going back as far as his youth Psa 25:7, as if these calamities, even in advanced life, were on account of those early offences. For they are many - Who and what they were, we have now no means of ascertaining. See the notes at Psa 25:16. And they hate me with cruel hatred - Margin, as in Hebrew: "hatred of violence." It was such hatred as tended to violence; such that they could not restrain it. It sought his destruction, and was ready to break out at any moment.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Consider mine enemies - See Psa 25:2. It is evident that one source of the trouble referred to in the psalm was the fact that he had cruel foes, and that he was apprehensive of their designs. The train of thought seems to be, in accordance with the remarks above, that enemies actually surrounded him, and threatened him, and that this fact suggested the inquiry whether this was not permitted on account of his sins. this had led him to think of the sins of his past life, going back as far as his youth Psa 25:7, as if these calamities, even in advanced life, were on account of those early offences.

For they are many - Who and what they were, we have now no means of ascertaining. See the notes at Psa 25:16.

And they hate me with cruel hatred - Margin, as in Hebrew: "hatred of violence." It was such hatred as tended to violence; such that they could not restrain it. It sought his destruction, and was ready to break out at any moment.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Consider mine enemies - Look upon them, and thou wilt see how impossible it is that I should be able to resist and overcome them. They are many, they hate me, and their hatred drives them to acts of cruelty against me.

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¹⁶ Turn [06437] thee unto me, and have mercy [02603] upon me; for I am desolate [03173] and afflicted [06041].

⁷ Remember [02142] not the sins [02403] of my youth [05271], nor my transgressions [06588]: according to thy mercy [02617] remember [02142] thou me for thy goodness [02898]' sake, O LORD [03068].

² O my God [0430], I trust [0982] in thee: let me not be ashamed [0954], let not mine enemies [0341] triumph [05970] over me.