Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
Ver. 2. Bow down thine ear to me, deliver me] This repetition of his petition is no vain babbling, as Matthew 6:9, but an effect and an evidence of greatest earnestness, as Matthew 26:44 .
For an house of defence] Where the enemy can as little hurt me as when I was in the hold, 1 Samuel 22:4 .