Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Ver. 14. Let them be ashamed and confounded together, &c.] These and the like imprecations must be looked upon as prophecies. Besides, David looked upon them not as his enemies only, but God's as well; and such also as were desperate and irrecoverable. So Paul prayed against the coppersmith, the Church against Julian, &c.
Let them be driven backward, &c.] A Christian may without sin be sensible of indignities; only it must be the mourning of doves, and not the roaring of bears.