Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 35:3

3. Draw out also the spear , and stop the may against them that persecute me: say unto my soul , I am thy salvation.

Thy offensive Weapons. He alludes to the practise of Soldiers in Battel.

In which they are marching directly, and furiously against me. But divers Interpreters, both Hebrews and others, take this Hebrew word for a Noun, and render it a Sword, Or, as the Word may signifie, a close Weapo[illegible: 1+ letters] For the Psalmist here representing God as a man of War, and accordingly furnishing him with other Weapons, it seems not probable that he would omit this Weapon, which was most constantly and universally used.

(i. e.) Unto me; Either, 1. By thy Spirit assuring me of it: Or, 2. By thy Providence effecting it: for God's saying or speaking, is oft meant of his doing, because his Word is sufficient for the doing of whatsoever he pleaseth.