Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Horror hath taken hold upon me - The word zilaphah , which we render horror, is thought to signify the pestilential burning wind called by the Arabs simoom. Here it strongly marks the idea that the psalmist had of the destructive nature of sin; it is pestilential; it is corrupting, mortal.
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