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They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
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A Dishonorable End
Commentators unanimously explain that the phrase 'a portion for foxes' more accurately refers to jackals. Unlike foxes, jackals were known to scavenge on battlefields, devouring the unburied dead. This detail paints a vivid picture of a dishonorable and complete defeat for the psalmist's enemies, whose bodies would be left exposed to wild animals.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They shall fall by the sword — The margin reads, "They shall make him run out like water by the hands of the sword." The word trans…
19th Century
Anglican
Shall fall. —See margin. But more literally, they shall pour him onto the hands of the sword, where the suffix him
Baptist
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion f…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They shall fall by the sword As Saul, his sons, and mighty men, did, (1 Samuel 31:4–6) ; or, "they shall…
True Christians can, in some measure, and at some times, make use of the strong language of David, but too often our souls cling to the dust. Havin…
