# gathered together

"assembled together" or "came together"

# against me

This means they came together for the purpose of attacking the writer. Alternate translation: "to make plans against me" or "to plan my destruction" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-idiom]])

# They tore at me

Here the treated the writer as if he were a piece of cloth that they could tear to pieces. Alternate translation: "They attacked me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])