They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Ver. 3. They have taken crafty counsel, &c.] They have negotiated this league with much subtilty and solicitation, conferunt et captant consilia, they are cruel crafties. Malignaverunt consilium, saith the Vulgate.
And consulted against thy hidden ones] Hidden under the hollow of thy hand, under the shadow of thy wing; and therefore safe from strife of tongues or force of hands, Psalms 27:5; Psalms 31:21, Commodum instituto epithetum. The Greek rendereth it, Thy saints, such as whose life is hid with Christ in God, Col 3:3 1 John 3:2. The same Hebrew word is used for the inward oracle of the temple, Ezekiel 7:22, a type of heaven, the saints' country.