But mine enemies [are] lively,.... Or "living" or "live"; not in a spiritual sense; for they had no lively hope, nor living faith, but were dead in trespasses and sins; nor merely in a natural sense, or corporeally, so David was living himself; but in great prosperity and worldly happiness, and so were brisk and cheerful, and lived a merry and pleasent life;[and] they are strong; not only hale and robust in body, but abounded in riches and wealth, which are the strength of wicked men;and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied; that is, such as hated him without a cause, and made lies and falsehoods the reasons of it: these increased in numbers, or in their outward state and circumstances; see Ps 73:4.
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Psalms 38:19
Psalms 38:19
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