Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
Psalms 59:1-17.-Two divisions. Prayer for the overthrow of the wicked and the deliverance of the Psalmist (Psalms 59:1-5 and Psalms 59:11-13); separated in each division by a "Selah," from confident hope resting on the prayer (Psalms 59:6-10 and Psalms 59:14-17). The same simile begins the second strophe of the first division and the section strophe of the second division, Psalms 59:6 and Psalms 59:14; marking their mutual relation.
On the title, Al-taschith, see note on title of Psalms 57:1-11. When Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him - (1 Samuel 19:11, etc.) David, escaped through the warning of Michal, David's wife, who let David down through a window, so that he escaped, and put an image and a goats hair bolster in the bed, where she said that David lay sick. This was the beginning act in his long wanderings to escape from Saul, and therefore formed a fit subject for a psalm.
Deliver me ... defend me from them that rise up against me - (Psalms 17:7, end) "Defend" - Hebrew, tªsagbeeniy (H7682); set me on high (margin, Psalms 20:1).