Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

35:19-21 They Are Gloating Deceivers. The song again tells more about the pursuers; they scheme (wink the eye), particularly against the hardworking pious (those who are quiet in the land). In John 15:25 Jesus uses Ps. 35:19, hate me without cause (cf. also 69:4), to portray himself as the quintessential innocent sufferer and to imply that his followers may expect the same treatment.