Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Was David really both lonely and poor? But isn't it written (1 Chronicles 7:15) that David was the seventh son? And it is written (2 Samuel 22:28) "You save an afflicted people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down." Rather, David said before God, "Since I have been appointed king over Your people, their eyes are upon me, and my eyes are upon You, for they are many and I am alone against them." Therefore, "I am lonely and afflicted." My enemies see me and they multiply, hating me with unjustified hatred. If Esau hated Jacob because he took the birthright, he still had to deal with him through the law. But what did David do to the barbarians and the Antonites?