Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
Ver. 8. Mine enemies reproach me all the day] This is an evil that man's nature is most impatient with. See Psal. cxxxvii.
And they that are mad against me] That let fly at me, or that once praised me, flattered me. So the Sept.
Are sworn against me] Have sworn my death, or do swear and curse by me, as the Turks do at this day, when, to confirm a truth, they say, Iudaeus sim si fallam, I would I were a Jew, it is so. See Zechariah 8:13 Isa 6:11-13 Jeremiah 29:22. God make thee as Ahab, and as Zedekiah, &c.