Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 35:7

7. For without cause have they hid for me their net, in a pit, which without cause they digged for my soul .

Out of meer Malice, without any injury or provocation on my part, and without any necessity on their parts. They are no Common, but the worst of Enemies; and therefore I may justly pray against them, as I do.

These Expressions aggravate their sins, and signifie that their Persecution of him was not the effect of a sudden Passion, but of a deep and habitual Hatred and Malice, and of an Evil design, carried on in a constant and continued Course with Deliberation, and Cunning, and Deceit, and that against his Soul or Life; for nothing less would sati[illegible: 1+ letters]fie them.