Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 7:6

"Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment." — Psalms 7:6 (ASV)

In the rapid succession of abrupt exclamations of feeling, we see the excitement of the poet’s mind.

Of the rage. —Better, against the rage, unless we can correct to “in your rage.” The Septuagint and Vulgate read, “in the ends of,” which Jerome explains as meaning, “exalt yourself by making an end of my enemies.” Syriac, “Be lifted up upon the necks of my enemies.”

And awake for me. —Better, arranged in two petitions: Indeed, awake for me; prepare the judgment. There is some difficulty about the syntax of the last clause, but the imperatives suit the parallelism of the context better than the past tenses.