Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 118:13

"Thou didst thrust sore at me that I might fall; But Jehovah helped me." — Psalms 118:13 (ASV)

Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall - literally, “Thrusting you have thrust at me.” This is the Hebrew mode of expressing intensity, repetition, or emphasis.

The meaning is, that they had made a deadly thrust at him; that they had repeated the blows; that they had come with a fierce determination to crush and destroy him. The psalmist, as it were, sees the enemy again before him, and addresses him as if he were present. Everything is vivid to the mind; the whole scene appears again to pass before him.