For my love they are my adversaries: but I [give myself unto] prayer.
Ver. 4. For my love they are mine adversaries] Heb. they satanically hate me. To render evil for evil is brutish, but to render evil for good is devilish.
But I give myself to prayer] Heb. But I am prayer, or, a man of prayer, as Psalms 120:7, But I am peace. So, being defamed, we pray, 1 Corinthians 4:12. When our Saviour was wearied out with the people's obstinace, he turned himself to God in prayer, Matthew 11:26, and prayed for his crucifiers, Luk 23:34 Send me to my toads again (in the dungeon), where I may pray for your lordship's conversion, said Saunders, the martyr, to Winchester.