Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 5. Have hid a snare for me ] They hunted David as they would a dangerous wild beast: one while striving to pierce him with the spear; another to entangle him in their snares, so as to take and sacrifice him before the people, on pretense of his being an enemy to the state.
Selah ] This is the truth.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - The more danger appears, the more earnest we should be in prayer to God. All are safe whom the Lord protects. If he be for us, who can be against us? We should especially watch and pray, that the Lord woul hold up our goings in his ways, that our footsteps slip not. God is a able to keep his people from secret fraud as from open force; and the experience we have had of his power and care, in dangers of one kind may encourage us to depend upon him in other dangers.
Original Hebrew טמנו2934 גאים1343 פח6341 לי וחבלים2256 פרשׂו6566 רשׁת7568 ליד3027 מעגל4570 מקשׁים4170 שׁתו7896 לי סלה׃5542
