Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 35:15

David, having showed how compassionate he was to his enemies in their affliction (Psa —35:14), he presently shows (Psa —35:15), how incompassionate, or barbarously cruel rather, his enemies were to him in his. "Abjects" are vile persons, men smitten in their estates and credits; yea, often as slaves or ill servants smitten with cudgels or whips. So a learned translator renders the Psalm, The smitten gathered against me; that is, vile men who deserve to be beaten and cudgelled. —Joseph Caryl.