Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
(Saying), Touch not mine anointed - a verbal allusion to Genesis 26:11. "Mine anointed" is (Hebrew) plural, and is explained by "prophets" in the next clause.
And do my prophets no harm. The anointing is the sign of the communication of the Spirit. "Mine anointed" are therefore those vessels of honour whom God fills with His Spirit: the consecrated bearers of God's revelation, "in whom the Spirit of God is," as Pharaoh said of Joseph (Genesis 41:38). As the three classes, prophets, priests, and kings, used in later times to be anointed, so the patriarchs, to whom God revealed Himself, bare all three offices combined, and so are termed "mine anointed." So it shall be again in the last days (Isaiah 54:13; Joel 2:28-29; Zechariah 4:14, "the two anointed ones;" Revelation 1:6, "kings and priests unto God and His (Christ's) Father"). In Genesis 20:7, Isaac is termed by God "a prophet." Abraham received communications from God in the two forms usual in prophecy, vision and dream, (Genesis 15:1-21.) So Isaac at Beersheba; Jacob at Bethel, Mahanaim, and Jabbok. The world durst not touch the anointed ones of Yahweh with impunity.