Their throat is an open sepulchre: they dealt deceitfully with their tongues: judge them, O God. Let them fall from their devices: according to the multitude of their wickedness cast them out: for they have provoked thee, O Lord.
Radak
Make them miss the mark (האשימם), O God: – There are some who interpret this from the meaning of שממה (“desolation”), and (make) אשׁם and שמם of one meaning. But it is admissible to explain it in the (primary) sense of אשׁם; and its interpretation (will then be): Make them miss the mark in their counsel, meaning, Let not what they purposed to do against me be possible or happen. And it occurs (here) in the sense of אשם taken as equivalent to הטא, as in יחטא ולא (“And would not miss the mark,” Judges 20:16). And this is what (he means when) he says: Let them fall from their counsels: In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, for they have rebelled against Thee – in that they hate me, and Thou hast commissioned me to be king, and they have rebelled against Thy words. (The word) מרו (they have rebelled) is here used in the same sense as in “Ye have rebelled (מריתם) against My word” (Num. 27:14).
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.