From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about.
Ver. 9. From the wicked that oppress me] Heb. that waste me, i. e. that cast me out into banishmeat, despoiled of all. This hard usage of his enemies drove David into God's blessed bosom; as children misused abroad run home to their parents.
From my deadly enemies] Heb. my enemies against the soul, i. e. the life at least, if not the soul, which they would gladly destroy. Some malice is so mischievous, that it would ruin body and soul together; as that monster of Milan, the enemies of John Huss, and Jerome of Prague, whose bodies they delivered to the fire, and their souls to the devil. David elsewhere complaineth of his enemies, that they did Satanically hate him, Psalms 55:4. "Beware of men," saith our Saviour, Matthew 10:17, for one man is a devil to another.