Psalms 109:4-5

4, 5. For my love Instead of “my love,” or instead of returning love for “my love,” they are my adversaries. And so, Psalms 109:5. This “rewarding evil for good and hatred for love” is the purest diabolism. Psalms 109:3-5 set forth the true moral relation of David to his enemies, both as to past conduct and present feelings, and have an essential bearing on the import and true spirit of the psalm. It is impossible to construe the psalm in the spirit of personal hate or vindictiveness. But the higher application is to Christ and his persecutors.

But I give myself unto prayer Literally, But I prayer; that is, “But I am wholly prayer.” Furst. I use no other means of vindication or defence. The form is intensive, as in Psalms 120:7, “I peace” I am wholly given to peace. The hatred of the psalmist’s foes is not of to-day or of yesterday, but of old, and of years past.” Canon Cook.