“For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,”
The description of enemies who devour and those who seek harm establishing a snare articulates that the adversaries are both predatory and calculating. The conspiracy against the psalmist suggests coordinated effort to destroy. This verse grounds the psalm in concrete threat.
Church Fathers on Psalms 71:10
1. In all the holy Scriptures the grace of God that delivers us commends itself to us, in order that it may have us commended. This is sung of in this Psalm, whereof we have undertaken to speak....This grace the Apostle commends: by this he got to have the Jews for enemies, boasting of the letter of the law and of their own justice. This then commending in the lesson which has been read, he says thus: “For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not worthy to be called an…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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