Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take
them,
&c.] That is, they that endeavour to make their escape from
their enemies, though they seek for places of the greatest
secrecy and privacy; not hell, the place of the damned; nor the
grave, the repository of the dead; neither of which they chose to
he in, but rather sought to escape them; but the deepest and
darkest caverns, the utmost recesses of the earth, the very
centre of it; which, could they get into, would not secure them
from the power and providence of God, and from their enemies in
pursuit of them, by his permission: though they climb up to
heaven, thence will I bring them down;
the summit of the highest mountains, and get as near to heaven,
and at as great a distance from men, as can be, and yet all in
vain. The Targum is,
``if they think to be hid as it were in hell, from thence their enemies shall take them by my word; and if they ascend the high mountains, to the top of heaven, thence will I bring them;''see ( Psalms 139:8 ) .