But I] Or, when I. as Chap. 34. 1.
like a lambe or an ox that is brought to the slaughter] When they think, that they are going to the pasture, or to the fold the one; to the stall the other. Proverbs 7:22. Isaiah 53:7.
they had devised devices against me] Chap. 18. 18.
Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof] Heb. the wood, or, stalk, with his bread. that is, the fruit which is for meat. Genesis 1:29. or, the grain, whereof bread is made. Isaiah 28:28. Let us destroy him utterly; or, stock and fruit, stalk and grain: that is, both him and his teaching together. Or, as some, let us poison him, by mingling a poisonous plant with his meat.
cut him off from the land of the living,] Psalms 52:5.
that his name may be no more remembred] Psalms 83:4.