2. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Saul was
treating him very unjustly, and besides that was pursuing a tyrannical and
unrighteous course towards others. Therefore David the more vehemently appeals
against him. Evil men were in the ascendant at court, and were the ready tools
of the tyrant; against these also he prays. Bad men in a bad cause may be
pleaded against, without question. When a habitation is beset by thieves, the
good man of the house rings the alarm bell; and in these verses we may hear it
ring out loudly: deliver me, defend me, deliver me, save me. Saul had
more cause to fear than David had, for the invincible weapon of prayer was
being used against him. And save me from bloody men. As David remembers
how often Saul had sought to assassinate him, he knows what he has to expect from
that quarter and from the king’s minions who were watching for him. David
represents his enemy in his true colors before God. The Lord abhors all those
who delight in blood.
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