Indicating how quickly such malicious gossip would spread, the psalmist goes on to say: “Unitedly against me all those hating me whisper to one another; against me they keep scheming something bad for me:

Ps. 41:7, 8.

Conspirators against David would get together and “whisper,” or discuss in hushed tones, their common stock of rumors, to the king’s detriment. They kept “scheming” something bad for the psalmist by spreading vicious talk to the effect that “a good-for-nothing thing,” namely, the disease, had such a hold on the king that it was as if “poured out upon him.”