Psalms 18:45

The strangers shall fade away, &c.— "They shall either lose their courage, and all power to resist, and their prosperity shall decay, and come to an utter end; or they themselves shall fall and gradually perish, till there be few or none of them left to oppose me." See Isaiah 1:30; Isaiah 40:7. Exodus 18:18. Psalms 37:2. It is added, They shall be afraid out of their close places. Grotius's comment is, "They shall suspect their safety in the very places they flew to for refuge." The verb חרג charag, is used only in this place in the Old Testament. The force of it seems to be, to be straitened; and the meaning of the clause, "They are straitened and distressed in the places where they shut themselves up, so that they are forced to surrender them into my hands." See Chandler, and Schultens.