They came round about me daily like water. God's terrors encompass the psalmist "daily," or "all day long," like water; i.e. like an overwhelming flood (compare the first clause of Psalms 88:16). They compassed me about together; or, "they compass me about in a mass."
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Psalms 88:17
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