Psalms 31:13 meaning and explanation

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

Psalms 31:13, Berean Standard Bible

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David speaks here as a man surrounded by hostility. He hears the whispered slander of many, and the phrase rendered "terror on every side" echoes the name the prophet Jeremiah later gave to a besieged Jerusalem, Magor-Missabib.

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