They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
Ver. 11. They have now compassed us in our steps] i.e. Me and my company; so that we cannot stir any whither but we are in danger of them. "In all thy ways acknowledge God, and he shall direct thy paths," Proverbs 3:6. "Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in him," &c., Psalms 32:5. Keep within God's precincts, and thou shalt be under his protection. He took order that a bird should be safe upon her own nest.
They have set their eyes bowing down to the earth] i.e. Hoc unum spectant ut ruamus (Junius). They are earnestly bent and firmly resolved upon our ruin, as one that fixeth his eyes upon another, to mark him, or to know him again; or as bulls, ready to run at one, set their eyes downward.