Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

Come not against Mine anointed ones, And against My prophets do not evil.

Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

'Do not touch my Christ. And do not malign my prophets.'

Touch not mine anointed - By this title the patriarchs are generally understood: they had a regal and sacerdotal power in the order of God. In the behalf of the patriarchs God had often especially interfered: in behalf of Abraham, Genesis 12:17; Genesis 20:3; and of Jacob, Genesis 31:24; Genesis 34:26; Genesis 35:5. But the title may be applied to all the Jewish people, who were the anointed, as they were the elect and peculiar people of God. See on Hebrews 11:26 (note).

[Saying], Touch not mine (k) anointed, and do my (l) prophets no harm.
(k) My elect and those whom I have sanctified.
(l) To whom God declared his word and they declared it to their posterity.