His cursing. Another reading has “my curse,” that is, the curse that has fallen upon me. David recognizes in every word and action that he w…

Look on mine affliction. —The English here follows the Septuagint and Vulgate. The Hebrew margin has mine eye, b…

It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction
Through the rebellion of his son, and now aggravated by the cur…

David bore Shimei's curses much better than Ziba's flatteries; by these he was led to make a wrong judgment about another, by those to make a right…