They have taken crafty counsel. — Literally, They have made their plot crafty; or, as we say, “They have laid a deep plot.”
Hidden ones — i.e., those under God’s close protection, as in Psalms 17:8; Psalms 27:5; Psalms 31:20.
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Psalms 83:3
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.