Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. Hide me from the secret counsel ] They plotted his destruction, and then formed insurrections in order to accomplish it.
Workers of iniquity ] Those who made sin their labour, their daily employment; it was their occupation and trade. It is supposed that by this title the Babylonians are intended. See Psa. vi. 3; xiv. 4; xxxvi. 12; liii. 4; lix. 2.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - The psalmist earnestly begs of God to preserve him from disquietin fear. The tongue is a little member, but it boasts great things. The upright man is the mark at which the wicked aim, they cannot spea peaceably either of him or to him. There is no guard against a fals tongue. It is bad to do wrong, but worse to encourage ourselves and on another in it. It is a sign that the heart is hardened to the greates degree, when it is thus fully set to do evil. A practical disbelief of God's knowledge of all things, is at the bottom of every wickedness The benefit of a good cause and a good conscience, appears most when nothing can help a man against his enemies, save God alone, who is always a present help.
Original Hebrew תסתירני5641 מסוד5475 מרעים7489 מרגשׁת7285 פעלי6466 און׃205
