The suffering Jesus here prays for protection from His insidious infidel persecutors, who privily plot against Him, and despise the judgments of God.
More fully, however, it is the desire of the Spirit of Christ in union with the afflicted Remnant in the latter day. For against them, as against Jesus Himself, the infidel faction, as we know both from Psalms and Prophets, will plot.
And Psalms of this character may remind us of what is said of the Lord in 1 Peter 2:23. As we know also from John 17:25, that He did commit the world, in its infidelity, to the notice of the righteous Father.
The righteous know that God has His arrows as well as the wicked—His of judgment, theirs of deceit and mischief (Psa. 64:3,7). And they assure themselves that they will see their enemies taken in their own evil way, and then the world around fleeing from them, and learning, by His judgments, to fear the Lord and to publish His doings. And, finally, they take knowledge of themselves, as making their boast, putting their trust, and reaping their joy, in the God of their salvation.