Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me;
David's house was under siege, every escape blocked by Saul's soldiers sent to kill him. His wife Michal contrived the deception that saved him that night, but he rested his hope on God alone; without the wonderful preservation of the Lord, no human artifice could have delivered him from certain death.
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Commenting on Psalm 59:1-17
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God. They were all round the house with the warrant of authority, and a force equal to the carrying of it out. He was to be taken dead or alive, well or ill, and carried to the slaughter. No prowess could avail him to break the cordon of armed men, neither could any eloquence stay the hand of his bloody persecutor.
The title of this psalm acquaints us particularly with the occasion on which it was penned; it was when Saul sent a party of his guards to beset David's house in the night, that they might seize him and kill him; we have the story Sa1 19:11. It was when his hostilities against David were newly begun, and he had but just before narrowly escaped Saul's javelin.
Commenting on Psalm 59:1-7