Psalms 35:1 «[A Psalm] of David. » Plead [my cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Ver. 1. Plead my cause, O Lord] We may safely pray the same, when oppressed with calumnies and false accusations, as now David was by Saul's sycophants, or, as others think, when he was in great heaviness, and even heart sick; after that Amnon had defiled Tamar, and Absalom had slain Amnon; his disaffected subjects, such as Shimei, insulted over him, and said, it was just upon him for the matter of Uriah, and other miscarriages; which they wrongfully charged him with. See a promise in this case, Isaiah 49:21 .
Fight against them, &c.] Or, devour them that devour me; for in Niphal only it signifieth to fight.