The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Ver. 15. The heathen are sunk down, &c.] Hoc est initium cantici Sanctorum, Thi is the beginning of the sacred songs, saith AbenEzra. This is the beginning of the saints' song, knit to the former verse thus: saying, The heathen, &c.
In the net which they hid, &c.] To hunters they are compared for cruelty, and to fowlers for craft. But see their success: they are sunk down in their own pit, caught in their own net. Thus it befell Pharaoh, Exodus 15:9,10, Jabin and Sisera, Judges 4:15; Judges 4:22,23, Sennacherib, 2 Chronicles 32:21, Antiochus Epiphanes, Maxentius the tyrant, who fell into the river Tiber, from his own false bridge laid for Constantine (Euseb. lib. 9, rap. 9), the Spanish Armada, our gunpowder Papists, &c. See Trapp on " Psa 7:15 "