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Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents
41:4-10 My Enemies Hope for My Death. From the statement of faith the singer turns to his present situation of serious illness, compounded with the malice of those impatient for his death.
41:9 One expects enemies to be treacherous, but here the pain of betrayal comes from his close friend, who had received only kindness and who has now lifted his heel against the singer. In John 13:18 Jesus applies this to Judas, who has received only kindness (including footwashing) from Jesus; this enables the reader both to see the pain Jesus underwent for the sake of his own, and the callous treachery of Judas.
