Commentary for Psalms 10:8

his eyes spy on Your army The eyes of Esau lurk for Israel, who are Your army.

He sitteth in the places of ambush of the villages: – The villages are the open towns which are upon the highways: as "her towns (lit. her daughters) and her villages" (Jos. 15:45); "the villages that Kedar doth inhabit" (Is. 42:11). Similarly we find (Zech. 2:8) "Jerusalem shall dwell as open regions."

on Your army Heb. לחלכה ; (verse 14), “upon You Your army (חלכה) leaves.” Both of them are in the masorah as words spelled with כה instead of ך, like (Exod. 7:29), “upon you (ובכה) and upon your people”; (Prov. 2:11), “discretion shall guard you (תנצרכה) (Exod. 29:35), “I commanded you (אתכה)”; (I Sam. 1: 26), “who was standing with you (עמכה).” We learn from the masorah that חלכה is like חילך, Your army. But Menachem (p.89) interprets לחלכה יצפנו and so יעזב חלכה like (verse 10), “and helpless ones (חלכאים) shall fall into his power,” a word meaning humble and moaning. Accordingly, כה is [part of] the radical.