Verse 19. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked] The remaining part
of this Psalm has no visible connexion with the preceding. I
rather think it a fragment, or a part of some other Psalm.
Ye bloody men.] anshey damim, men of blood, men
guilty of death.
Verse 20. Thine enemies take thy name in vain.] Bishop Horsley
translates the whole verse thus:-
"They have deserted me who are disobedient to thee;
"They who are sworn to a rash purpose-thy
refractory adversaries."
The original is obscure: but I cannot see these things in it.
Some translate the Hebrew thus: "Those who oppose thee
iniquitously seize unjustly upon thy cities;" and so almost all
the Versions. The words, thus translated, may apply to Sanballat,
Tobiah, and the other enemies of the returned Jews, who
endeavoured to drive them from the land, that they might possess
the cities of Judea.
Verse 21. Do not I hate them] I hold their conduct in
abomination.
Verse 22. With perfect hatred] Their conduct, their motives,
their opposition to thee, their perfidy and idolatrous
purposes, I perfectly abhor. With them I have neither part,
interest, nor affection.
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