Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 141:6

6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places , they shall hear my words, for they are sweet .

The chief of mine enemies, their Governors Civil and Military.

Or, shall be overthrown, or cast down headlong by thine exemplary vengeance. Or, as others, were left free, unhurt by me, when it was in my power to destroy them: of which see 1 Sam. 24. & 26. to which histories this place is by divers learned Interpreters thought to allude. And then by their Iudges he means Saul, although he thought not fit distinctly to mention him, but onely to intimate him in an obscure and general way.

Heb. in the hands or by the sides of the rock. Which may relate either, 1. to the rocky nature of those places in which Saul fell into Davids hands. See 1 Sam. 24. 2. or, 2. to the ancient manner of punishing malefactors, which was by throwing them down from the tops of rocks: of which see 2 Chron. 25. 12. or, 3. to aggravate their overthrow; for falls in stony places are as most easie and frequent, so also most mischievous.

Then they, either the Judges, who will be wise too late; or the people spared by my favour, when others were overthrown and warned by that fearful example, will hear my words, i. e. hearken to my counsels and offers which now they despise, and then they, my words, will be sweet and acceptable to them, which now they reject. Others thus, then they did hear my words that they were sweet, then they acknowledged that my words and carriage towards Saul were full of meekness and gentleness, and that I was not so false and malicious, as they had represented me to be.