Psalms 63:10

They shall fall&c. Lit., They shall give him over (lit. pour him out) to the power of the sword (Jeremiah 18:21; Ezekiel 35:5). The active verb with indefinite subject is practically equivalent to a passive, -He shall be given over"; yet the idiom suggests the idea of mysterious agents, God's ministers of justice, whose office it is. Cp. Luke 12:20, R.V. marg. The object of the verb is in the singular, either individualising the king's enemies (-each one of them"), or treating them as one body; but hardly singling out the leader. Cp. Psalms 64:8, note.

a portion for foxes Rather, jackals. "It is the jackal rather than the fox which preys on dead bodies, and which assembles in troops on the battle-fields, to feast on the slain." Tristram, Nat. Hist., p. 110. Their corpses will lie unburied where they fall, to be devoured ignominiously by wild beasts, instead of receiving honourable sepulture. Cp. Isaiah 18:6; Jeremiah 19:7.