Attend unto my cry
His prayer and supplication for help in his distress, which he
desires might be hearkened unto and answered;
for I am brought very low;
in his spirit, in the exercise of grace, being in great
affliction, and reduced to the utmost extremity, weakened,
impoverished, and exhausted; wanting both men and money to assist
him, ( Psalms
79:8 ) ( 116:6 ) ;
deliver me from my persecutors;
Saul and his men, who were in pursuit of him with great warmth
and eagerness;
for they are stronger than I;
more in number, and greater in strength; Saul had with him three
thousand chosen men out of all Israel, ablebodied men, and expert
in war; veteran troops, and in high spirits, with their king at
the head of them; David had about six hundred men, and these poor
mean creatures, such as were in distress, in debt, and
discontented, and in want of provisions, and dispirited; see (
1 Samuel
22:2 ) ( 23:13 ) (
24:2
) ( Psalms
18:16 ) . So the spiritual enemies of the Lord's people are
stronger than they, ( Jeremiah
31:11 ) ( Ephesians
6:12 ) .