He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Ver. 11. He hath turned aside my ways.] As Lamentations 3:9 .
And pulled me in pieces.] As a bear or lion doth the silly sheep that falleth into their paws. Carnali quadam intemperie haec effusa sunt. The Vulgate hath it, Confregit me. He hath broken me in pieces; scil., Attempting to leap over his hedge; Lam 3:7 his stone wall. Lam 3:9 In the year 1590, Nicolas Frischlin, that famous poet, orator, and philosopher, attempting to escape out of prison, was so broken, a capite ad talos, a cute ad ossa. from the head to the heels, from the skin to the bones. a
a Alsted., Chron., 480.