Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return [and] be ashamed suddenly.
Ver. 10. Let all mine enemies be ashamed] When they see all their hopes of my death and downfall disappointed.
Let them return] Retrocedant et in terrain cadant, saith the Arabic interpreter, Let them go backward, and fall to the earth. Some make this a prayer, some a prophecy; it comes all to one.
And be ashamed suddenly] Let them be doubly ashamed, or deboshed, and that in a moment. These sudden and still revenges are very terrible. God usually premonisheth before he punisheth, but not always. Now as blessings, the more unexpected the more welcome; so judgments, the more sudden the more grievous.