Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies as from a sling’s pocket.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 29. Bundle. Such things are more secure than those which are loose. Worthington.—Of the living, or predestinate, over whom Providence watches in a particular manner. She seems to allude to the method of carrying pieces of silver in bundles. Proverbs 7:20. Chal. “the soul of my lord shall be in the treasury of the lives of the age, before the Lord God.” Calmet.—It shall be preserved for length of days, like something most precious, ( Bible.) while the wicked shall be in continual danger and anxiety, like a stone in a sling. Zechariah 9:15. By substituting c for b in Hebrew the sense may be still more striking: “the soul of my lord shall be preserved like a living (precious, serviceable,) stone. But the soul of thy enemies shall be whirled in a sling.” The Hebrews had a great esteem for slingers, so that this comparison would be sufficiently noble. A living stone is often mentioned both is sacred and in profane authors. 1 Peter 2:4. Virgil Æneid i. 171. Vivoque sedilia saxo.