Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 109:4

4. For my love, they are my adversaries : but I give my self unto prayer ,

They require my love and good will with enmity and mischief, as it is explained v. 5.

Heb. but I prayer, i. e. I am a man of prayer, or, I betake my self to prayer. Thus I peace is put for I am for peace, as we render it Psal. 120. 7. and thy bread for the men of thy bread, or, that eat thy bread, Obad. v. 7. The sence is, whilst they reproach and curse me, I pray either, 1. for them, as he did Psal. 35. 13. or, 2. for my self: I did not render unto them evil for evil, but quietly committed my self and my cause to God by prayer, desiring him to plead my cause against them; and I had no other refuge.