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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 63 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. This psalm was composed by David, either when he was persecuted by Saul, and obliged to hide himself in desert places, as in the forest of Hareth, the wildernesses of Ziph, Maon, and Engedi, 1 Samuel 22:5; all which were in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:55; or when his son Absalom rebelled against him, which...
John Gill
But those [that] seek my soul to destroy it,.... Meaning his life; for as for his soul, that was immaterial and immortal, and could never be destroyed by man: but as for his natural life, his enemies laid snares for that, and sought to take it away, and nothing less would satisfy them; shall go into the lower parts of the earth; not the grave, whither the righteous go as well as the wicked;...
Matthew Henry
This psalm has in it as much of warmth and lively devotion as any of David's psalms in so little a compass. As the sweetest of Paul's epistles were those that bore date out of a prison, so some of the sweetest of David's psalms were those that were penned, as this was, in a wilderness. That which grieved him most in his banishment was the want of public ordinances; these he here longs to be...
Charles H. Spurgeon
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. The wicked always grovel, they never rise to higher things; and their course shall be downward,-downward to the grave, downward to eternal death.
Charles H. Spurgeon
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 for foxes. The jackal is the creature meant here, for he haunts the battlefield, and devours the slain. So it came to pass with many of David’s foes. They fell in battle, and the wild beasts devoured them.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy right hand upholdeth me. 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 for foxes, But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. Stopped with a shovelful of earth, in many cases; for it seems as if some liars...
Charles H. Spurgeon
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 for foxes. Or jackals, as his name did become.
Charles H. Spurgeon
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. 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 for foes. All our sins, and all other things or beings that are the enemies of our soul, Christ has overcome, and he will leave them upon the field.