So here we have a setting of the scene—what is going on—and it is a lot of bad people in the section that we will skip here. He lists the nations that are conspiring against Israel and he implores God to do something. Do not be silent, he says. Say something, do something. Turn this around for us somehow. And he gives God an idea of what is going on. Of course, God knows that, but he lays it out here in the first four verses.
