Psalms 64:5

5 They help each other make evil plans. They talk about hiding their traps. They say, "Who can see what we are doing?"

Psalms 64:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 64:5

They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter
Or "strengthen him" ^F3; that is, Saul, by making use of arguments and reasonings to induce him to go on in his wicked persecution of David; or they strengthened and hardened themselves in their wickedness, as Saul's courtiers and the enemies of Christ did, and as all wicked men do, when they observe the sentence against them is not speedily executed, ( Ecclesiastes 8:11 ) ;

they commune of laying snares privily;
that is, they conversed together, and consulted how to lay snares for the perfect man in the most private manner, that they might entrap him and destroy him;

they say, who shall see them?
either the snares laid, or the persons that laid them? None; no, not even God himself; see ( Psalms 10:11 Psalms 10:14 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (wml wqzhy) "firmant illi", Muis.

Psalms 64:5 In-Context

3 They make their tongues like sharp swords. They aim their words like deadly arrows.

4 They shoot from their hiding places at people who aren't guilty of doing anything wrong. They shoot quickly. They aren't afraid of being caught.

5 They help each other make evil plans. They talk about hiding their traps. They say, "Who can see what we are doing?"

6 They make plans to do what is evil. They say, "We have thought up a perfect plan!" The hearts and minds of people are so clever!

7 But God will shoot my enemies with his arrows. He will suddenly strike them down.