They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people - They combine craft with violence.
And consulted against thy hidden ones - thy people whom God 'in the time of trouble hides (so His special treasure, Malachi 3:17) in His pavilion, in the secret of His tabernacle' (Psalms 27:5: cf. also Psalms 31:20); especially true of Christians, whose "life is hid with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3).