Psalms 31:13

13 For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.

Psalms 31:13 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many
Both enemies and neighbours;

fear [was] on every side;
his enemies were a "Magormissabib" to him, ( Jeremiah 20:3 ) ; encompassed him around, so that he was in fear from every quarter;

while they took counsel together against me;
how to apprehend him, and what to do with him;

they devised to take away my life;
nothing short of that would satisfy; but life is in the hand of God; men may devise, but God disappoints, and his counsel stands; hence the psalmist was encouraged, after all, to trust in him, in this time of imminent danger, as follows.

Psalms 31:13 In-Context

11 Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. [Those who] see me in the street flee from me.

12 I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.

13 For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.

14 But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh. I say, "You [are] my God."

15 My times [are] in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from [those who] pursue me.