Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

Psalm 35. This psalm shows how the faithful should pray when they know that malicious people are seeking to harm them. The prayer recounts the evil schemes of the persecutors and asks God to fight on behalf of his faithful one.

35:1-3 Cry for Help against Pursuers. In the imagery of combat, the psalm opens by asking God to take up the cause of the singer.