Psalms 54:3

For strangers are risen up against me,.... Meaning such as Doeg the Edomite, or Heathen soldiers, that Saul had hired and took into his army, who were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel; and such…

For strangers are risen up against me - That is, foreigners; those of another nation or land. Saul and his friends who sought the life of David were his own countrymen; these persons who sought go…

We may observe here, 1. The great distress that David was now in, which the title gives an account of. The Ziphim came of their own accord, and informed Saul where David was, with a promise to deliver…

This verse is repeated almost verbatim in Psa 86:14 (a mosaic constructed of fragments of other Psalms), with the change, accidental or intentional, of strangersinto proud. The consonants of the Heb.…