and more impudent; here is a large pause in the Hebrew text, in the midst of this verse: Shimei went along on the hill side over against him; as David and his men walked in the plain, he went on a range of hills that ran along right against them: and cursed as he went; continued his curses and imprecations, to which he was the more emboldened by the behaviour of David and his men: and threw stones at him, and cast dust; in a way of contempt, though the stones recoiled on his own head, and the dust flew in his own face, as the consequence of things showed; and now David composed and penned the seventh psalm, Psa 7:1 .