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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 35:23

At last undertake to plead my cause against mine adversaries. read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 35:1-28

INTRODUCTION“This psalm, If It be as the inscription tells us a psalm of David, must have been composed either during his persecution by Saul or during the revolt of Absalom. It is usual to connect it with his words in 1 Samuel 24:15. Its peculiar feature is, that the enemies on whom the poet imprecates the righteous judgments of God are men who had formerly been his friends, men for whom he had prayed in their sorrow’ with a brother’s heart,’ and who now requited his love with ungrateful... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 35:1-25

Psalms 35:1-28 Psalms 35:1-28 :Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, stand up for my help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt ( Psalms 35:1-4 ).So this is one of those psalms where David is... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 35:1-28

Psalms 35:1 . Fight against them. This is another martial ode, or war song, in which David prays for victory over the army of Saul that came to fight against him, and for confusion to those about the king who daily slandered him. Thus we also pray against enemies. REFLECTIONS. The argument to this psalm, as in Psalms 26:0., is an invocation to God against the injustice of Saul and his court, who long pursued David with the sword. Under slander and implicated wrongs he appeals to that bar... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 35:23

Psa 35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, [even] unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Ver. 23. Stir up thyself and awake ] This is the same in effect with the beginning of the psalm; to show his ardour and intention of affection. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 35:23

Stir: Psalms 7:6, Psalms 44:23, Psalms 80:2, Isaiah 51:9 my God: Psalms 89:26, Psalms 142:5, John 20:28 Reciprocal: Genesis 16:5 - the Lord Psalms 3:7 - Arise Psalms 59:4 - awake Psalms 109:1 - Hold Isaiah 10:26 - stir up Lamentations 3:59 - judge read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 35:23

Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.Awake — To plead my cause against mine adversaries. read more