It is natural to take these verses as the cry for help just mentioned.
Consider. — Literally, see my suffering from my haters.
My lifter up from the gates of death. — For the gates of sheol, see Note to Psalms 6:5. (Comp. Psalms 107:18, and the Homeric phrase “the gates of Hades.”) We might perhaps paraphrase “from the verge of the grave,” if it were not for the evident antithesis to “gates of the daughter of Zion” in the next verse. We understand, therefore, “gates” in sense of “power,” “rule,” the gate being the seat of the judge or king, and so, like our “court,” synonymous for his power. (Comp. Sublime Porte.)
Daughter of Zion — i.e., Zion itself (see Isaiah 37:22): a common personification of cities and their inhabitants. So of Edom (Lamentations 4:21); of Babylon (Psalms 137:8, &c).