Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 7:5

5. Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it ; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

I am contented, and wish that Saul may so persecute my Life as to overtake it, and take it away.

Either 1. That honourable and royal Estate to which I am chosen and designed. Or 2. My Reputation and Memory. Or rather 3. The same thing which he called his soul and his life in the former branch of the verse, and here his honour; it being very frequent to express one thing in several words or phrases in one verse. And so here may be observed a gradation. Let him 1. Persist to persecute it; 2. Take it; 3. Tread it down, or destroy it, and 4. Lay it in the dust, or bury it, to prevent all hopes of Restitution.