15The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
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Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)We have here David’s warm and pathetic speech to Saul, wherein he endeavours to convince him that he did him a great deal of wrong in persecuting him thus and to persuade him therefore to be reconciled. I. He calls him father (1 Sam. 24:11), for he was not only, as king, the father of his country, but he was, in particular, his father-in-law. From a father one may expect compassion and a favourabl…
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