Psalms 11:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, &c. Many eminent commentators consider these also as the words of David's friends, representing to him, as a motive for his flight, the extreme danger he was in, which they compare to that of a bird when a fowler, having already fixed his eye upon it, had fitted his arrow to the string, and lying close, was taking aim at it, intending to shoot it. Just so, they signified, Saul and his counsellors had laid their plot on a sudden to destroy David. See Patrick and Dodd.

Psalms 11:2

2 For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privilya shoot at the upright in heart.