Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 9:13

13. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that li[illegible: 1+ letters]test me up from the gates of death :

To wit, Compassionately and effectually, so as to bring me out of it.

From the Brink or Mouth of the Grave into which I was dropping, being as near Death as a Man is to the City, that is come to the very Gates of it. And so the Phrase is used Psal. 107. 18. Isa. 38. 10. and in other Authors, [of whom see my Latin Synopsis.] Gates elsewhere signify Power and Policy, because the Gates of Cities were places both of Counsel and Strength; but the Gates of Death are never so taken in Scripture.