Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Lest he tear my soul. He singles out one among his many persecutors (Psalms 7:1) as prominent: evidently the same one as is enigmatically described in the title "Cush," unchangeably black at heart, as the Ethiopian is unchangeably black in skin. "The Benjamite" evidently identifies him with Saul (1 Samuel 20:1; 1 Samuel 23:23; 1 Samuel 26:18-19). The singular may be an ideal personification of the many enemies of whom Saul was the foremost. So the antitype, the last enemy of the son of David, shall "tear, like a lion, rending the sheep." Compare Zechariah 11:15-16, "I will raise up a shepherd (a lion or wolf in sheep's clothing) which shall ... eat the flesh of the fat, and tear ... in pieces."