They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Ver. 11. They compassed me about; yea, &c.] They thought to make sure work of me indeed; as Saul and his men, when they hemmed him in at Maon, 1 Samuel 23:26; as the Church's enemies, when they had gotten her as a bird into the snare of the fowler, Psalms 124:7; as when the adversaries said, "They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them," Nehemiah 4:11 .
But in the name of the Lord I will destroy them] Enervabo, excidam. The word signifieth, Non otioso nec dormienti contingere victorias, sed certanti et praelianti, that he foiled not his foes without pains and peril (Plat. in Syde). Towns were said to come into Timotheus's toils while he slept; but that was but a fiction of those that envied him.