But those [that] seek my soul, to destroy [it], shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Ver. 9. But those that seek my soul to destroy it] Heb. Ad pracipitium, to hurl it down headlong, shall themselves be laid low enough, even in the slimy valley where are many already like them, and more (shall come after them), Job 21:31,32. And this assurance of his enemies' downfall David had gotten by his meditations on God, Psalms 63:6 .
Shall go into the lower parts of the earth] i.e. Into the grave at least, if not into hell; they shall be abyssed into hell, into eternal perdition, saith Diodati.