Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
Ver. 11. Let the sighing of the prisoner, &c.] It was lately in many places of this land a like difficult thing to find a wicked man in the enemy's prisons or a godly man out of them. The sighs of such were shrill in God's ears.
Preserve thou those that are appointed to die] Heb. The children of death, those that being destined to destruction, seem to be as much in death's power as children are in their parents'. The Arabic rendereth it, Redime filios occisorum, Redeem the children of those who are slain, lest the name of their parents be blotted out.