Psalms 35

Psalms 35:6

LEt their way] let them have no light for their actions and enterprises, nor bee guided by any good counsels, nor have any firme subsistence.

Psalms 35:7

They hid for mee] a phrase taken from hunters.

Psalms 35:10

All my bones] that is to say, I my selfe with all my strength and power. Or, I who am at this present quite consumed and extenuated, as if I had nothing left mee but skin and bones.

Psalms 35:11

They laid] the Italian, they asked mee, they laid faults unto mee, and accused mee for faults, whereof I am not only innocent, but also ignorant.

Psalms 35:12

Spoiling] the Italian, discomfort, the Hebrew word signifieth a privation from all help, comfort, joy and assistance.

Psalms 35:13

Sick] that is to say, afflicted with any kinde of calamity: [my clothing] I pittied their afflictions and did humble my selfe in prayer before God, to mediate fop them: [returned] a phrase taken from the manner of praying which they anciently used, namely bwing their head downe to their breast. And so is represented the continuance and assiduity of prayer, proceeding from the heart, and by this gesture returning, as one should say, back to its spring againe, so to make a continuall revolution.

Psalms 35:14

I behaved my selfe] the Italian, I went about, a description of an extream care, and unquiet passion of the minde.

Psalms 35:15

But in mine adversity] the Italian, in my balting, that is to say, when I have been thrust out of my precedent happinesse, and have been shaken by adversity: [teare mee] with scoffes and calumnies.

Psalms 35:17

Destruction] their ambushes, and snares whereby they seek to make mee fall into perdition: [my darling] the Italian, my only one, see Psalms 22:20.

Psalms 35:19

Winke] a gesture of a malitious scoffer, Proverbs 6. 13. and 10. 10.

Psalms 35:22

Keep not silence] doe not forbeare operating by thine almighty word.

Psalms 35:24

To thy righteousnesse] righteous I am and innocent in this cause, yet not any way meriting towards God, nor perfect of my selfe, see Psalms 31:2.

Psalms 35:25

Ah] a terme of mi〈…〉, as of a man that would incite himselfe to the full fruition, of the pleasure which is shewed him.

Psalms 35:27

Which hath pleasure in the] the Italian, who will have the, who causeth it, and makes him enjoy it, and granteth it him for the love hee beareth him.