\*Ver. 19. \\Consider mine enemies\\, &c.] Or %look% {m}
upon them; but with another kind of look; so as he
looked through the pillar of fire upon the Egyptians,
and troubled them, \\#Ex 14:24\\; with a look of wrath
and vengeance. The arguments he uses are taken both
from the quantity and quality of his enemies, their
number and their nature;
\*\\for they are many\\; the
hearts of the people of Israel, in general, being after
Absalom, \\#2Sa 15:12,13\\; and so the spiritual enemies
of the Lord's people are many; their sins and
corruptions, Satan, and his principalities and powers,
and the men of this world;
\*\\and they hate me with
cruel hatred\\; like that of Simeon and Levi, \\#Ge 49:7\\;
their hatred broke out in a cruel manner, in acts of
force and cruelty; and it was the more cruel, inasmuch
as it was without cause: and such is the hatred of Satan
and his, emissaries against the faithful followers of
Christ; who breathe out cruelty, thirst after their
blood, and make themselves drunk with it; even their
tender mercies are cruel, and much more their hatred.

\*Ver. 20. \\O keep my soul\\, &c.] Or %life% {n}, which was
in danger, his enemies seeking for it; wherefore he
applies to God that gave it, and who had hitherto held
him in it, to preserve it. God is the keeper of has
people in a spiritual sense; they cannot keep themselves
from sin, Satan, and the world; but he is able
to keep them from falling, and therefore they pray to
him that he would keep them; and they have reason
to believe they shall be kept by his power, through
faith, unto salvation;
\*\\and deliver me\\; as out of the
hands of his present enemies, so from all evil, from
the evils of the world, from the evil one, Satan, from the
evil of sin, and out of all affliction and troubles;
\*\\let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee\\; \\see
Gill on "Ps 26:2"\\.

\*Ver. 21. \\Let integrity and uprightness preserve me\\,
&c.] Meaning either his own, as in \\#Ps 7:8
26:1\\; and then the sense is, either that God would
preserve him, seeing he had acted the faithful and upright
part in the government of the people of Israel,
and they had rebelled against him without a cause; see
\\#Ps 78:72\\; or that those might be continued
with him, that he might not be led aside by the corruptions
of his heart, and the temptations of Satan,
and by the provocations of his rebellious subjects, to
act a part disagreeable to his character, as a man of
integrity and uprightness; but that these remaining
with him, might be a means of keeping him in the ways
of God, \\#Pr 13:6\\; or else the integrity and uprightness
of God are designed, which are no other than his
goodness and grace to his people, and his faithfulness
in his covenant and promises, or his loving kindness
and his truth; see \\#Ps 40:11\\;
\*\\for I wait on thee\\: in
the use of means for deliverance and safety; the Targum
is, %for I trust in thy word%.

\*Ver. 22. \\Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles\\.]
David was not only concerned for himself, but
for the whole nation of Israel, which was involved in
trouble through this unnatural rebellion of his son, and
many of his subjects; and no doubt he may have a
further view to the redemption of the church of God,
the spiritual Israel, by the Messiah; and his sense
may be, that God would send the promised Redeemer
and Saviour, to redeem his people from all their iniquities;
from the law, its curses and condemnation;
to ransom them out of the hands of Satan, that is
stronger than they; and to deliver them from all their
enemies, and from death itself, the last enemy, which
will put an end to all their troubles, \\#Isa 35:10\\.

{m} \^har\^ %vide%, Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Cocceius, Michaelis
%aspice%, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; %intuere%, Gejerus.
{n} \^yvpn\^ %animam meam, i.e. vitam meam%, Gejerus.