Psalms 118:10

"All nations compassed me about:

In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.

They compassed me about, yea they compassed me about:

In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.

They compassed me about like bees; they are

quenched as the fire of thorns:

In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off."

"All nations compassed me about" (Psalms 118:10). When David ascended the throne of Israel, the Philistines had just succeeded in killing Saul; and the Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites in a sense "surrounded" Israel.

"In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off" (Psalms 118:10-12). Rawlinson called these terse pledges, "a conviction,"[7] but they are not a conviction, they are a "promise and a pledge" on the part of the author of the psalm, which can hardly be any other person than king David. Certainly no priest, nor a band of singers, nor even the nation of Israel itself could have made such a pledge. The words fit the mouth of king David; and furthermore, he did exactly what he here said he would do.