For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult. God's people rightly remind their Father that the invade are not merely their enemies, but His; therefore His honour is at stake in delivering them-an all-prevailing plea. The foes are a type of the Gentile people, the followers of Antichrist of whom Psalms 2:1-12 saith, 'Why do the pagan tumultuously assemble? (margin) ... the kings of the earth ... and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed?'
They that hate thee - the real ground of their hatred against thy people (Psalms 81:15.)
Have lifted up the head - proudly and so oppressors; as Midian, once did, until God by Gideon subdued them, "so that they lifted up their heads no more" (Judges 8:28).