“They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?”
The statement that enemies hold fast to their evil design and talk of laying snares secretly establishes their deliberate commitment to wickedness and their strategic planning. The reference to secrets indicates that they believe they can hide their plans from God. This verse articulates the enemies' misunderstanding: they think their conspiracy is beyond God's knowledge. This verse sets up the contrast between the enemies' false confidence and the actual reality that God is aware of all things.
Church Fathers on Psalms 64:5
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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