Adversary Bear Borne Deals Endure Endured Enemy Evil Exalted Foe Friends Grief Hated Hater Hates Hateth Hating Hid Hidden Hide Insolently Insulted Insulting Kept Magnified Magnify Myself Outside Raised Raising Reproached Reproaches Reproacheth Secret Strong Taunted Taunts
55:12 For [it was] not an {i} enemy [that] reproached me; then I could have borne [it]: neither [was it] he that hated me [that] did magnify [himself] against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
(i) If my open enemy had sought by hurt, I could better have avoided him.
55:12 Hated - With a manifest or old hatred.
55:9-15 No wickedness so distresses the believer, as that which he witnesses in those who profess to be of the church of God. Let us not be surprised at the corruptions and disorders of the church on earth, but long to see the New Jerusalem. He complains of one that had been very industrious against him. God often destroys the enemies of the church by dividing them. And an interest divided against itself cannot long stand. The true Christian must expect trials from professed friends, from those with whom he has been united; this will be very painful; but by looking unto Jesus we shall be enabled to bear it. Christ was betrayed by a companion, a disciple, an apostle, who resembled Ahithophel in his crimes and doom. Both were speedily overtaken by Divine vengeance. And this prayer is a prophecy of the utter, the everlasting ruin, of all who oppose and rebel against the Messiah.
Adversary Bear Borne Deals Endure Endured Enemy Evil Exalted Foe Friends Grief Hated Hater Hates Hateth Hid Hide Insolently Insulted Insulting Kept Magnified Magnify Outside Raised Reproached Reproaches Secret Strong Taunted Taunts
Adversary Bear Borne Deals Endure Endured Enemy Evil Exalted Foe Friends Grief Hated Hater Hates Hateth Hid Hide Insolently Insulted Insulting Kept Magnified Magnify Outside Raised Reproached Reproaches Secret Strong Taunted Taunts