Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Ver. 19. Consider mine enemies, for they are many] This was to David half a promise, and a whole reason that he should be helped; since it was to come to an extremity. If God but look out of the pillar of cloud upon the Egyptian army, it is enough for their utter confusion, Exodus 14:24 .
And they hate me with cruel hatred] Of their craft he had complained, Psalms 25:15, now of their cruelty. These are never sundered in the Church's enemies; as the asp, they say, never goeth without his mate. See Isaiah 34:16 .