For lo: these are the words, either,
1. Of David's friends or enemies, confirming their former advice; which might suit with it, if that was the counsel of his friends; but not if it was (as it seems to have been) the counsel of his enemies; for these would never have called themselves wicked, nor David and his men upright in heart. Or rather,
2. Of David himself; who having directed his speech to his enemies, Psalms 11:1, now turns it to God, and pours out before him his complaints against his enemies, as his usual course is in this book. They do not only speak scornfully of me, as I have said, but, O Lord, they act against me with all their might and malice. They make ready their arrow upon the string; they lay designs for my destruction, and they make all things ready to execute them. Privily; out of their lurking holes: compare Psalms 10:8,9 Psalms 64:5. For as some of his enemies did openly oppose him, so others did secretly undermine him, and with pretences of friendship seek to betray him. At the upright in heart; at me and my followers, who have manifested our integrity both towards God and towards Saul, whom I have faithfully served and Spared when I could have taken away his life.