Plead my cause. — Better, Strive, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me. The construction requires this, and the parallelism suggests recourse to arms rather than to the law.
Fight. — Literally, devour. (Comp. Numbers 24:8.
“He shall eat up the nations.” So a Latin author —
“Qua medius pugnæ vorat agmina vortex.”
SILIUS: Punic, 4:230.
Comp. Shakespeare —
“If the wars eat us not up.’ — Coriolanus, Acts 1, sc. 1)