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Psalm 31:13 KJV
Psalms · chapter 31 · verse 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.Psalm 31:13 · King James Version
Psalm 31:13 in context
11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
13For 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.
14But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
15My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- togetheryachadproperly, a unitH3162 →
- slanderdibbâhslanderH1681 →
- counselyâçadto setH3245 →
- devisedzâmamto plan, usually in a bad senseH2161 →
- heardshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- manyrababundantH7227 →
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In the foregoing verses David had appealed to God's righteousness, and pleaded his relation to him and dependence on him; here he appeals to his mercy, and pleads the greatness of his own misery, which made his case the proper object of that mercy. Observe, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-18