Psalms 35:13 meaning and explanation

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Psalms 35:13, Berean Standard Bible

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David speaks here of enemies who repaid his kindness with hostility and false charges. He recalls when those same people were ill: he wore sackcloth and humbled himself with fasting, the customary signs of grief and earnest prayer.

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