Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
Attend unto my cry - (Psalms 17:1; Psalms 61:1).
For I am brought very low - `attenuated,' 'poor' (Psalms 79:8; Psalms 116:6). The primary passage is Judges 6:6, "greatly impoverished." The ultimate reference of the psalm is to Israel in her low state in the latter days. Her cry to the Lord in her distress will bring Him to her help.
Deliver me from my persecutors (Psalms 7:1); For they are stronger than I. But they are not stronger than THOU. Thou cast make us 'stronger than our enemies' (Psalms 105:24). He who is 'stronger than the strong man' (Luke 11:22), Israel's oppressor, and whose very 'weakness is stronger than men' (1 Corinthians 1:25), shall 'ransom' her 'from him that was stronger than' she (Jeremiah 31:11; Psalms 18:17).