Psalms 59:3,4

For, lo, strong ones have laid wait for my life,

They gather themselves together against me,

For no transgression or sin of mine, Jehovah.

For no iniquity (of mine) they run and station themselves:

Arouse thee to meet me, and behold.

Observe the tenses. Secret plots (cp. Proverbs 1:11; Micah 7:2) have long been going on: now they are preparing a more open attack (Psalms 54:3; Psalms 56:6). In this crisis he calls upon God to arouse Himself from His apparent slumber of indifference (Psalms 44:23), and -meet him" as with an army of relief. For -behold" (lit. see) cp. Psalms 10:14; Psalms 25:18; Psalms 31:7.

The transgression, sin, iniquity, of which he protests his innocence, might refer to offences against God, for which this persecution might have been sent as a punishment (1 Samuel 26:19); but more probably they refer to offences against his persecutors. Their hostility is unprovoked. Exactly the same words are used by David in protesting his innocence of treasonable designs against Saul, 1Sa 20:1; 1 Samuel 24:11.