Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Ver. 13. For I have heard the slander of many] Or, as Calvin, Mollerus, and others render it, magnorum, of the great ones, such as take counsel (so it followeth here), which the vulgar seldom do; and their tongues oft are no slander, as we say.

Fear was on every side] Magormissabib, Pashur's new name and doom, Jeremiah 20:3,4; but good David's condition at this time: without were fightings, within were fears.

While they took counsel together against me] See 2 Samuel 16:20, where we have an exposition of this verse. See Trapp on " 2Sa 16:20 "