Psalms 64

Psalms 64:1

MY prayer] or complaint.

Psalms 64:2

From the secret councell] namely, from their private plots: [Insurrection] or a tumult, that is to say, a violent commotion, or surie of the people.

Psalms 64:3

Who whet] by slanders and false accusations against others, and by frauds and dissimulations against David himselfe: [Bitter words] that is to say, poysoned words; a terme taken from those Archers which poyson their Arrowes.

Psalms 64:4

In secret] the Italian, in hidden places, where they lie in wait, and thereby are meant their dissimulations and deceits; such as a hunter useth when he lyeth hid in a bush Isaiah 28:15. or with which the just man meets, and wherein he is detained, namely his innocencie, simplicity, and perceavance which are his onely refuge, and in things belonging to a humane life, are as it were his passages [Feare not] neither God nor men; or they do it without any danger, and secure from him whom they set upon so unawares.

Psalms 64:5

They encourage themselves] or they strengthen themselves in thoughts, that is to say, they doe confirme them with so much fore-cast, and with such cautions, that they seeme infallible.

Psalms 64:6

Deep] that is to say, most crafty and cunning.

Psalms 64:7

Shoot at them] the Italian, shall shoot them, or shall upon a sudden showre his arrowes upon them and wound them.

Psalms 64:8

Their own tongue]amely, their owne wicked councells which they have taken and agreed upon with their tongues, shall even fall upon their own necks, Psal. 34. 21. and 94. 23.[Shall flee away] or shall bee moved namely with feare.

Psalms 64:10

Shall glory] in God for his judgements, which he hath executed for their deliverances.