Psalms 55:4 - Exposition

My heart is sore pained within me . The attacks of his enemies ( Psalms 55:3 ) deeply grieve and pain the heart of the psalmist. It is not as if they were foreigners, whose hostility was to be expected. They are his own countrymen; one of them is his own familiar friend ( Psalms 55:12 ). Yet they threaten his life. And the terrors of death are fallen upon ms. When a king is the object of a conspiracy, he well knows, especially in the East, that nothing but his death will satisfy the conspirators. So on David, long before he made up his mind to quit Jerusalem ( 2 Samuel 15:14 ), the "terrors of death" must have fallen.