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Thine enemies take thy name in vain - Bishop Horsley translates the whole verse thus: -
“They have deserted me who are disobedient to thee;
“They who are sworn to a rash purpose - thy refractory adversaries.”
The original is obscure: but I cannot see these things in it. Some translate the Hebrew thus: “Those who oppose thee iniquitously seize unjustly upon thy cities;” and so almost all the Versions. The words, thus translated, may apply to Sanballat, Tobiah, and the other enemies of the returned Jews, who endeavored to drive them from the land, that they might possess the cities of Judea.