Behold, all they that were incensed against thee,.... For rejecting their idols, and idol worship; for receiving the Gospel, and professing it:
shall be ashamed and confounded; their idols not being able to help them, nor they to defend the worship of them: the same is said with respect to Christ, Isaiah 45:24:
they shall be as nothing, and they that strive with thee shall perish; or, "the men of thy strife" o; all shall come to nothing, and utterly perish, as to their persons, substance, power, and dignity; as did the Roman emperors, the persecutors of God's people.
o אנשי ריבך "viri litis tuae", Montanus; "rixae tuae", Vatablus.