Consider mine enemies,.... Or "look" upon them; but with another kind of look; so as he looked through the pillar of fire upon the Egyptians, and troubled them, Ex 14:24; with a look of wrath and vengeance.
The arguments he uses are taken both from the quantity and quality of his enemies, their number and their nature;for they are many; the hearts of the people of Israel, in general, being after Absalom, 2Sa 15:12; and so the spiritual enemies of the Lord's people are many; their sins and corruptions, Satan, and his principalities and powers, and the men of this world;and they hate me with cruel hatred; like that of Simeon and Levi, Ge 49:7; their hatred broke out in a cruel manner, in acts of force and cruelty; and it was the more cruel, inasmuch as it was without cause: and such is the hatred of Satan and his emissaries against the faithful followers of Christ; who breathe out cruelty, thirst after their blood, and make themselves drunk with it; even their tender mercies are cruel, and much more their hatred.