Psalm 140:4
Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked,.... From falling into their hands, and the weight of them}; and from their laying hands on him, being men of power and authority;
preserve me from the violent man: or men, everyone of them;
See Gill on "Ps 140:1";
who have purposed to overthrow my goings: to supplant him; to cause him to stumble and fall, to his disgrace and reproach; and that they might take an advantage of him, and an occasion against him. Arama interprets it, to drive me out of the land of Israel; see 1 Samuel 26:1. So Christ's enemies thought to have supplanted him, and have found something against him, to accuse him of to Caesar, Matthew 22:15.