9 Destroy their plans,j O Lord, confuse their tongues;

for I see violence and strife in the city.

10 Day and night they go around it

on its walls;

and mischief and trouble are within it,

11 ruin is in its midst;

oppression and fraud

do not depart from its market place.

12 It is not an enemy who taunts me—

then I could bear it;

it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me—

then I could hide from him.

13 But it is you, my equal,

my companion, my familiar friend.

14 We used to hold sweet converse together;

within God’s house we walked in fellowship.