פּירוש אויף תהילים 3:5

I cry unto the Lord with my voice: – i.e. unto the Lord with my voice, for I cry to Him by reason of (my) distress.

My voice (קוֹלִי - koli): And the meaning is: I will not enter into battle, but rather I will lift up my voice in prayer.

And He answered me: – a past (tense) in place of a future, equivalent to “and He will answer me”; and there are many similar cases. Or, it may be taken according to its literal sense; for he was confident of this. Or the Holy Spirit made a revelation upon his tongue; and this is the correct view – for we have already interpreted that all the Psalms were uttered in the Holy Spirit. And in the greater part of prophecy this is found, that the speaker uses a past tense in place of a future; for it is as though the thing had already happened when it has been spoken in the Holy Spirit.