Psalm 55:8–16

8  I would hasten my escape

From the windy storm and jtempest.

9  jjDestroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues:

For I have seen kviolence and strife in the city.

10  Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:

Mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

11  lWickedness is in the midst thereof:

mDeceit and guile depart not from her streets.

12  For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it:

Neither was it he that hated me that did nmagnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

13  But it was thou, †a man mine equal,

My oguide, and mine pacquaintance.

14  †We took sweet qcounsel together,

And rwalked unto the house of God in qcompany.

15  Let death seize upon them,

And let them sgo down squick into ||hell:

For wickedness is in their tdwellings, and among them.

16  As for me, I will call upon God;

And the Lord shall save me.