Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 63:9

9. But those that seek my soul to destroy it , shall go into the lower parts of the earth .

(i. e.) To take away my Life.

Either, 1. Into Hell. Or rather, 2. Into their Grave, as this Phrase is used, Ez[illegible: 1+ letters]k. 31. 14. 18. But how is this true, when they are supposed to be devoured by Foxes, v. 10. Ans. This may be understood; Either, 1. Of divers Persons. Some of their slain might be Buried, and others lye unburied. Or, 2. Of the same Persons; they did go into the Earth, but not immediately, but were first devoured of Foxes, and the remainders of them were Buried, as is frequently done in such Cases. Or, this Phrase may note not so much the Place, as the State, of the Dead; this being universally said of those that dye, whether they are buried or unburied, that they return to the Earth or Dust, Iob 1. 21. Eccles. 12. 7.