Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 35:15

"The abjects." The very abjects (Prayer Book Version). The Hebrew word Nechim, thus translated, comes from a verb signifying to be smitten. Hence, in the Septuagint it is rendered scourges. But it may also be rendered, with Jerome, smiters, and may mean smitten with the tongue. Com. Jer —18:18. Another of its meanings is, according to Buxtorf, the wry-legged, the lame; and so it is used in 2Sa —4:4; 2Sa —9:3; whence the epithet of Necho was given to one of the Pharaohs who halted in his gait. Our translators seem to have understood the word in this last sense, as a term of contempt. —Daniel Cresswell.