For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.
Ver. 20. For they speak not peace] Which yet God doth to his people, Psalms 85:9, and that is their comfort. "I am for peace," saith David elsewhere, "but when I speak, they are for war," Psalms 120:7 .
Against the quiet of the land] i.e. Against myself, and such as I am, who study to be quiet and to do our own business, 1 Thessalonians 4:11, affecting rather quietness from the world than acquaintance with it.