“"Let not them that are Mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over Me:" for they rejoice over Me because of My chaff. "Who hate Me without a cause;" that is, whom I never hurt; "winking with their eyes" [Psalm 35:19]: that is, pretending hypocrites, "For they spake indeed peace to Me" [Psalm 35:20]. What is, "winking with th…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 35
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19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
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17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
— Psalms 35:19 —
20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.