Albert Barnes Commentary Psalms 142:6

"Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I." — Psalms 142:6 (ASV)

Attend unto my cry - Give ear to me when I cry to you. Do not turn away and refuse to hear me.

For I am brought very low - I am reduced greatly; I am made very poor. The language would be applicable to one who had been in better circumstances, and who had been brought down to a condition of danger, of poverty, of want. It is language which is commonly applied to poverty.

Deliver me from my persecutors - Saul and his followers.

For they are stronger than I - More in number; better armed; better suited for battle.