Let them not say in their hearts, ah, so would we have it,
&c.] Or we have what our souls wished for and desired: the sense of the petition is the same with ( Psalms 27:12 ) ;
let them not say, we have swallowed him up;
as roaring lions swallow down their prey, to which he had compared them, ( Psalms 35:17 ) ; and as wicked men eat up the Lord's people as they eat bread, ( Psalms 14:4 ) .