Commentaire sur Les Psaumes 5:11

by their own counsels which they formulate against Israel. Then all who take shelter in You shall rejoice.

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).