Psalms 17:9

From the wicked that oppress me,.... Or "waste" or "destroy" (g); as wild beasts do a field or vineyard when they get into it; and such havoc do persecutors and false teachers make of the church and…

From the wicked that oppress me - Margin, “That waste me.” The margin expresses the sense of the Hebrew. The idea is that of being wasted, desolated, destroyed, as a city or country is by the ravages…

We may observe, in these verses,

I. What David prays for. Being compassed about with enemies that sought his life, he prays to God to preserve him safely through all their attempts against him, to the…

that oppress me R.V., that spoil me. Cp. Psa 12:5. (R.V.).

my deadly enemies Nothing but his life will satisfy them. Cp. 1Sa 24:11. This is the sense, whether the exact meaning is enemies in soul,…