Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. Deliver me from mine enernies, O my God ] A very proper prayer in the mouth of Nehemiah, when resisted in his attempts to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem by Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, who opposed the work, and endeavoured to take away the life of the person whom God had raised up to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. I conceive the Psalm to have been made on this occasion; and on this hypothesis alone I think it capable of consistent explanation.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - In these words we hear the voice of David when a prisoner in his ow house; the voice of Christ when surrounded by his merciless enemies the voice of the church when under bondage in the world; and the voic of the Christian when under temptation, affliction, and persecution And thus earnestly should we pray daily, to be defended and delivere from our spiritual enemies, the temptations of Satan, and the corruptions of our own hearts. We should fear suffering as evil-doers but not be ashamed of the hatred of workers of iniquity. It is no strange, if those regard not what they themselves say, who have mad themselves believe that God regards not what they say. And where ther is no fear of God, there is nothing to secure proper regard to man.
Original Hebrew למנצח5329 אל תשׁחת516 לדוד1732 מכתם4387 בשׁלח7971 שׁאול7586 וישׁמרו8104 את853 הבית1004 להמיתו׃4191 הצילני5337 מאיבי341 אלהי430 ממתקוממי6965 תשׂגבני׃7682
