Psalms 56:2 - Exposition

Mine enemies ; literally, my watchers —those who keep a continual guard over me. If David had been seized and made a prisoner by the Philistine lords, this expression would be very appropriate. Would daily swallow me up; rather, pant after me all day. For they be many that fight against me. The "lords of the Philistines'' were, doubtless, "many;" they seem to have, all of them, opposed themselves to David ( 1 Samuel 29:2-9 ). O thou Most High. This rendering is now generally abandoned, since marom ( מָרוֹם ), "height," is nowhere else used in this sense. Dr. Kay, Hengstenberg, and the Revised Version render "proudly;" Professor Cheyne, "with high looks."