Save me by thy name That is, by thy own strength, as the next words explain it, because I have no other refuge. Or, for thy name, for thy own glory, which is concerned in my deliverance. And judge me
Give sentence for me, or plead my cause. For strangers are risen up against me The Ziphites, whom, though Israelites, he calls strangers in regard of their barbarous and perfidious conduct toward him, by which they showed themselves to be estranged from God, as the wicked are said to be, Psalms 58:3, and from the commonwealth of Israel, and from all the laws of piety and humanity. For which causes he calls such persons heathen, Psalms 59:5, and elsewhere. They have not set God before them They have cast off all regard to his presence and authority, and all fear of his judgments.