George Leo Haydock

Fence. This may refer to the persecutors, who resembled a leaning wall. (Berthier) (Isaias xxx. 13.) (Calmet) — Protestants, “ye shall be slain all of you, as a bowing wall shall ye be, ” &c. He threatens them with speedy destruction, (Haydock) or represents to them the baseness of attacking a man ready to fall. (Calmet) — He informs them, that their attempts will be in vain, though they be very numerous, and he himself apparently so weak. (Worthington)