The malicious and calumniating enmity of the haters of the Lord—of Christ—shall draw out the wrath of God, and thus, unexpectedly, shall they be taken in their own wickedness. The character of their own enmity against Christ, the Perfect One, exhibits the principles of their own state, and, when drawn out to a head in the account of their own exultation, draws down the vengeance of God—the very same perfection in power, as Christ was in humiliation.
The Psalm is the depth of the secret counsel of the wicked—malice and encouragement; see verses 5 and 6. But God shoots at them, whose thoughts are deeper. Still they shall be a sign of their own folly and God's judgment. Men, “all men," shall fear. Then, afterward, the Lord shall be the joy of the righteous upright.