The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 118:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

They compassed me about like bees; i.e. in vast numbers, and with intense energy, and a furious desire to injure (comp. Deuteronomy 1:44; and the powerful description of Virgil, 'Georg.,' 4:236-238).

They are quenched as the fire of thorns. Their fury dies away and goes out suddenly, like a fire kindled among thorns, which blazes up with vast heat and noise, but in a short time dies down and disappears.

For in the Name of the Lord I will destroy them (see the comment on Psalms 118:11).

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