Psalms 62:3

How along will ye imagine mischief? &c.— How long will ye push against a single man? Ye shall all of you be slain, and fall on a sudden, like a bending wall, or a tottering fence. See Green and Mudge. The word fence, or hedge, does not come up to the original; which means such a sort of partition, or wall, as, when it is decayed, is liable to fall and crush a man to death. In this view the similitude is, not that they should be in a ruinous condition, like a decayed wall, but that they should threaten destruction to all who came near them, as a falling wall does to all those who come within the reach of it; and, as the prophet expresses it, Like a breach ready to fall, swelling out into a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant. Isaiah 30:13.