Psalms 119:69

“The proud have forged a lie against me, etc.] Or, “sewed a lie to him” f1668; fastened a lie upon him, or sewed and added one lie to another. Either with respect to politics, as the proud and haughty courtiers of Saul, who represented David to him as a traitor, that had treasonable designs against him to take away his life, and seize his crown and kingdom, (<092409>1 Samuel 24:9); or with respect to religion; so some proud scornful men, that derided him for his piety, and scoffed at his seriousness, gave out that it was all grimace and hypocrisy; raised calumnies upon him, and laid things to his charge he knew nothing of; and which were all lies, forged out of their own brains, and artfully…”

“The proud - The psalmist had before referred to the “proud” as those from whom he had suffered injury, or as having been exposed to their derision. See the notes at Psalms 119:51. He here reverts to another form in which he had suffered from them. Have forged a lie against me - Compare Job 13:4. The word rendered “forged,” means to patch together; and then it is applied to charges or accusations against anyone, perhaps from their being made up (as they often are) of shreds and patches - hints, small matters, things having no necessary connection in themselves, but brought together as if they pertained to the same transaction - words dropped here and there in conversation, which, being…”

“proud: Psa 35:11, Psa 109:2, Psa 109:3; Job 13:4; Jer 43:2, Jer 43:3; Mat 5:11, Mat 5:12, Mat 26:59-68; Act 24:5, Act 24:13 I will: Psa 119:51, Psa 119:157 with my whole: Psa 119:34, Psa 119:58; Mat 6:24; Jam 1:8 Psalms 119:70”