10
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.
11
I am the scorn of all my adversaries, a horror to my neighbors, an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
12
I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
13
For I hear the whispering of many— terror all around!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. This psalm, according to Arama, was composed by David when in Keilah; but, according to Kimchi and others, when the Ziphites proposed to deliver him up into the hands of Saul; and who, upon their solicitations, came down and surrounded him with his army, from whom in haste he made his escape, and to which he is thought to refer in Psalm 31:22. Theodoret supposes it was written by David when he fled from Absalom, and that it has some respect in it to his sin against Uriah, in that verse.
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