Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 3:7

7. Arise , O LORD, save me, O my God , for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek-bone : thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Bestir thyself on my behalf, and be no longer as an idle spectator of my Miseries.

Who art mine by special relation and covenant, and I am thy son and thy servant: Lord save thine own.

Thou hast hitherto helped me, do not now leave me.

Which implies either contempt and reproach, as this phrase signifies, 1. Kings. 22. 24. Mich. 5. 1. Iohn. 18. 22. and 19. 3. or the smartness and soreness of the blow, whereby, as the next clause explains it, their teeth were struck out, and so they did not only receive hurt themselves, but were disenabled from doing that mischief to others which they desired and were accustomed to do.

(i. e.) Their strength and the instruments of their cruelty. He compares them to wild Beasts.

Marginal references: Psal. 31. 7, 8.