Psalms 63:9

“those . . . to destroy it--or literally, "to ruin," or, "for ruin"; that is, such as seek to injure me (are) for ruin, appointed to it (compare Psa 35:8). shall go . . . earth--into the grave, or, to death; as their bodies are represented as a portion for--”

“But those that seek my soul to destroy it - Who seek my life; who endeavor to kill me. This language would well describe the purposes of Absalom and his followers. Shall go into the lower parts of the earth - Shall descend into the earth; into the deepest graves. He would live; but they would perish. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Shall go - Into the grave. Psalms 63:10”

“63:9 The wicked were plotting to destroy the psalmist’s life through deception and lies, but they would meet their end. • The depths of the earth refers to the place of the dead.”

“seek: Psa 35:4, Psa 35:26, Psa 38:12, Psa 40:14, Psa 70:2; Sa1 25:29 go: Psa 9:17, Psa 55:15, Psa 55:23, Psa 86:13; Num 16:30-33; Sa1 28:19; Job 40:13; Isa 14:9, Isa 14:15, Isa 14:19, Isa 14:19; Eze 32:18-32; Act 1:25 Psalms 63:10”

“The closing strophe turns towards these foes. By והמּה he contrasts with his own person, as in Psa 59:16., Psa 56:7., the party of the enemy, before which he has retreated into the desert. It is open to question whether לשׁואה is intended to be referred, according to Psa 35:17, to the persecuted one (to destroy my life), or, with Hupfeld, to the persecutors (to their own destruction, they themselves for destruction). If the former reference to the persecuted be adopted, we ought, in order to give prominence to the evidently designed antithesis to Psa 63:9, to translate: those, however, who..., shall go down into the depths of the earth (Bttcher, and others); a rendering which is hazardous as…”