Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
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.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 59:1-17
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Saul was treating him very unjustly, and besides that was pursuing a tyrannical and unrighteous course towards others, therefore David the more vehemently appeals against him. Evil men were in the ascendant at court, and were the ready tools of the tyrant, against these also he prays. Bad men in a bad cause may be pleaded against without question.
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