| Geneva Study Bible For my love they are my adversaries: {b} but I give myself unto prayer. (b) To declare that I had no other refuge, but you, in whom my conscience was at rest. Wesley's Notes 109:4 Adversaries - They requite my love with enmity, as it is explained ver.5. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 4, 5. They return evil for good (compare Ps 27:12; Pr 17:13). I give myself unto prayer-or literally, "I (am) prayer," or, "as for me, prayer," that is, it is my resource for comfort in distress. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 109:1-5. It is the unspeakable comfort of all believers, that whoever is against them, God is for them; and to him they may apply as to one pleased to concern himself for them. David's enemies laughed at him for his devotion, but they could not laugh him out of it. |