Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. Evening, when they came to take David. But, out of regard for Michol, they providentially waited till he had escaped, 2 Kennicott. 19. Bible.—Nehemias was obliged to watch continually, 2 Ezra 4:11, 23. Calmet.—The Jews will embrace the faith at the end of the world, (Saint Augustine) or they will be destroyed (S. Hil.) or banished by Titus and Adrian (A.D. 137); the latter of whom forbade them even to look at Jerusalem from an eminence. They could not enter it in the time of Eusebius, (Psalms 48) and Saint Jerome Soph. i.—They have a hunger for God’s word, of which they have lost the true sense. Saint Athanasius—Persecutors are never satiated, though they labour to destroy, all their lives. Worthington.—They allow themselves no rest. Menochius.