Psalms 63:9

Enemies seek to destroy my life, ¹  but they will descend into the depths of the earth. ² 

Nu 16:30-33; 1Sa 25:29; 1Sa 28:19; Job 40:13; Ps 9:17; Ps 35:4,26; Ps 38:12; Ps 40:14; Ps 55:15,23; Ps 70:2; Ps 86:13; Isa 14:9,15,19; Isa 14:19; Eze 32:18-32; Ac 1:25

¹ tn Heb “but they for destruction seek my life.” The pronoun “they” must refer here to the psalmist’s enemies, referred to at this point for the first time in the psalm.

² sn The depths of the earth refers here to the underworld dwelling place of the dead (see Ezek 26:20; 31:14, 16, 18; 32:18, 24). See L. I. J. Stadelmann, The Hebrew Conception of the World, 167.