I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
Ver. 37. I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them, &c.] Of David we may say, as one did of Julius Caesar, you may perceive him to have been an excellent soldier by his very language; for he wrote with the same spirit he fought. In eo tanta vis, id acumen, ea concitatio, saith Quintilian concerning Caesar's Commentaries, ut illum eodem animo dixisse appareat quo bellavit.