“Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:”
The request that God would hide the psalmist from the secret counsel of evildoers and the tumult of the wicked establishes the prayer for protection from conspiracy and hidden plots. The emphasis on secret counsel indicates that the threat is not overt but covert; enemies are planning in hidden ways. The reference to tumult suggests noisy aggression and chaotic assault. This verse articulates the particular difficulty of facing hidden opposition: the enemy is not visible, making the threat more psychologically destabilizing.
Church Fathers on Psalms 64:2
1. Though chiefly the Lord's Passion is noticed in this Psalm, neither could the Martyrs have been strong, unless they had beheld Him, that first suffered; nor such things would they have endured in suffering, as He did, unless they had hoped for such things in the Resurrection as He had showed of Himself: but your Holiness knows that our Head is our Lord Jesus Christ, and that all that cleave unto Him are the members of Him the Head ....And let no one say, that now-a-days in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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