Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 31:6

6. I have hated them that regard lying vanities : but I trust in the LORD.

Their very Persons not simply, but for their Wickedness. Compare Psal. 139. 21, 22.

Heb. that observe, to wit, with Respect to them, Dependence upon them, or Expectation of any good from them.

Or, most vain Vanities: Such as are foolish and deceitful, and fruitless. By which he understands, Either, 1. All Humane or Carnal Helps, any Arm of flesh; for he that trusteth therein is pronounced Cursed, Ier. 17. 5. and therefore is hateful. Or, 2. Idols, which are oft called Vanities, as Deut. 32. 21. Ier. 2. 5. and 8. 19. &c. Or 3. Curious Arts, and all sorts of Divinations by Stars, Or the Motions, or Inwards of living Creatures, or by the Dead: which Practises were common and prevalent among those Eastern people, and by their Example, were to rise among the Israelites also, Isa. 2. 6. of whom he here speaks: for the Gentiles [illegible: 1+ letters]at observed these Vanities, he rather pitied than hated; but the Israelites that did so were Apostates from God, and professed Enemies to him▪ and his Laws, and therefore were the proper Objects of just hatred.

Marginal references: Jon. [illegible: 1+ letters] 8.