They have now compassed us in our steps— Mudge renders this and the preceding verse differently: Psalms 17:10. They draw close their cords; with their mouth they speak exultingly: "We have succeeded now." Psalms 17:11. They come about me, they set their eyes stooping down upon the earth. The image here is taken from hunters, and the circumstances follow very properly. They compassed him about, they enclosed him in their net; "We have succeeded at last," they said; they came round him; they stooped down and looked earnestly at him; their eyes fixed, like a lion which is just leaping at his prey. See Houbigant.
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Psalms 17:11
11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;