"Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
Attend unto my cry,.... His prayer and supplication for help in his distress, which he desires might be hearkened unto and answered; for I am brought very low; in his spirit, in the exercise
of grace, being in great affliction, and reduced to the utmost extremity, weakened, impoverished, and exhausted; wanting both men and money to assist him, Psa 79:8 ; deliver me from my persecutors; Saul and his men, who were in pursuit of him with great warmth and eagerness; for they are stronger than I; more in number, and greater in strength; Saul had with him three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, ablebodied men, and expert in war; veteran troops, and in high spirits, with their king at the head of them; David had about six hundred men, and these poor mean creatures, such as were in distress, in debt, and discontented, and in want of provisions, and dispirited; see Sa1 22:2 . So the spiritual enemies of the Lord's people are stronger than they, Jer 31:11 .
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
Attend unto my cry,.... His prayer and supplication for help in his distress, which he desires might be hearkened unto and answered; for I am brought very low; in his spirit, in the exercise
of grace, being in great affliction, and reduced to the utmost extremity, weakened, impoverished, and exhausted; wanting both men and money to assist him, Psa 79:8 ; deliver me from my persecutors; Saul and his men, who were in pursuit of him with great warmth and eagerness; for they are stronger than I; more in number, and greater in strength; Saul had with him three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, ablebodied men, and expert in war; veteran troops, and in high spirits, with their king at the head of them; David had about six hundred men, and these poor mean creatures, such as were in distress, in debt, and discontented, and in want of provisions, and dispirited; see Sa1 22:2 . So the spiritual enemies of the Lord's people are stronger than they, Jer 31:11 .