Psalms 60:9

“Who will bring me [into] the strong city? etc.] Which some understand of Rabbah of the Ammonites, which Joab besieged, and sent to David to come and take it in person, (<101226>2 Samuel 12:26,29). The Targum interprets it of Tyre, which was a strong fortified city, (<262604>Ezekiel 26:4,11). It rather seems to be the same with Edom, or the metropolis of the Edomites; since it follows: who will lead me into Edom? which was situated in the clefts of the rock, and on the height of the hill, (<244916>Jeremiah 49:16); but is mystically to be understood of the city of Rome, the great and mighty city, as it is often called in the book of the Revelation, (<661108>Revelation 11:8 17:18 18:10); whose…”

“He feels assured that, though once angry, God is now ready to favor His people. who will lead me-- or, who has led me, as if the work were now begun.”

“Who will bring me into the strong city? - The strong city - the fenced, the fortified city - referred to here is doubtless the capital of Idumea. This was the celebrated city Petra, situated in the rocks, and so difficult to be taken by an enemy. For a description of it, see the notes at Isaiah 16:1. It was this city, as the capital of the land of Edom, which David was now so anxious to secure; and he asks, therefore, with interest, who among his captains, his mighty men, would undertake the task of conducting his armies there. Who will lead me into Edom? - Into the capital, and thence into the whole land to subdue it. This was done under the combined command of Joab and Abishai his brother.…”

“Who - None can do it but God. City - The cities; the singular number for the plural. Having beaten his enemies out of the field, he desires God's assistance to take their strong - holds, and so secure himself from farther attempts. Edom - Which was an high and rocky country, Oba 1:1-3, fortified by nature, as well as by art, and therefore not to be subdued without a Divine hand. Psalms 60:10”

“60:9 Destroying a defeated invader’s capital (the fortified city) would help to ensure that they would not attack again. The capital of Edom was Bozrah, located to the southeast of Israel. Only God could grant victory.”

“Who: Jdg 1:12, Jdg 1:24, Jdg 1:25; Ch1 11:6, Ch1 11:17-19 strong city: Heb. city of strength, Sa2 11:1, Sa2 12:26-31 Psalms 60:10”

“The third strophe reverts to prayer; but the prayer now breathes more freely with a self-conscious courage for the strife. The fortified city (עיר מצור) is not Rabbath Ammon; but, as becomes evident from the parallel member of the verse and Kg2 14:7, the Idumaean chief city of Sela' (סלע) or Petra (vid., Knobel on Gen 36:42, cf. Psa 31:22; Ch2 8:5; Ch2 11:5 together with Psa 14:5). The wish: who will conduct me = Oh that one would conduct me (Ges. 136, 1)! expresses a martial desire, joyful at the prospect of victory; concerning מי נחני, quis perduxerit me, vid., on Psa 11:3. What follows is not now to be rendered: Not Thou (who but Thou), Elohim, who...(Hitzig) - for in order to have been…”