Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
David's enemies are not mere dupes swept along by Saul's court; he distinguishes carefully between those thoughtlessly caught up in hatred through ignorance and those deliberate malefactors who wickedly conspired to destroy an innocent man for favor. Against the latter, he calls on God for justice, knowing his own innocence and relying on God's promise spoken through Samuel.
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Commenting on Psalm 35:1-28
"Stir up thyself." Be upon thy mettle. Prove that thou art no indifferent witness to all this infamy. "Awake to rail judgment." Take the sceptre and summon the great assize; vindicate justice, avenge oppression. Do not tarry as men do who sleep.
His enemies hated him without cause, spoke no peace to him, and when he fell they shouted and huzzaed as if their longing were at last satisfied. The crowd follows fortune and execrates the fallen, even as they cried against the Son of David.
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Commenting on Psalm 35:17-28