Psalms 55:2-10

²Pay attention to me and answer me; I have no rest in my troubles

³because of the voice of my enemies, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they bring trouble on me and persecute me in anger.

⁴My heart trembles within me, and the terrors of death have fallen on me.

⁵Fearfulness and trembling have come on me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

⁶I said, “Oh, if only I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away and be at rest.

⁷See, then I would wander far away; I would stay in the wilderness. Selah

⁸I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.”

⁹Devour them, Lord, confuse their language! For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

¹⁰Day and night they go about on its walls; iniquity and mischief are in the middle of it.