“They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.”
The statement that those who would destroy the psalmist being mighty indicates formidable opposition backed by power and resources. The reference to enemies falsely requiring of the psalmist what was not taken indicates that the psalmist is accused of theft or violation of property that they did not commit. This verse establishes injustice: the righteous are attacked by the powerful who use false accusations as their weapon.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:4
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed has spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, has leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: Genesis 9:19 for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, Matthew 8:11 while those shall have been…
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