Verse 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. Hidden ones — Thy people of Israel, who are called God’s hidden or secret ones, to intimate the respect which God has to them, as to his peculiar treasure.
Verse 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; The tabernacles — The people dwelling in them. Ishmaelites — Some of the posterity of Ishmael, called by their father’s name, as others of them are supposed to be called Hagarens from their grandmother Hagar.
Verse 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Gebal — An Arabian people so called by ancient writers dwelling in the southern border of Canaan, where most of the people here mentioned had their abode.
Verse 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. /*Selah*/. Of Lot — Moab and Ammon.
Verse 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. A wheel — Whereas they promise to themselves a sure possession, let them be like a wheel, which is very unstable, and soon removed.
Verse 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; The mountains — The woods upon the mountains, which in those hot countries, when they have once taken fire, burn with irresistible violence.
Verse 16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. May seek — May own and worship thee as the only true God.