Psalms 55:2-11

²give thou attention to me, and hear thou me. I am sorrowful in mine exercising;

³and I am disturbed of the face of the enemy, and of the tribulation of the sinner. For they bowed wicked-nesses into me; and in ire they were dis-easeful to me.

⁴Mine heart was troubled in me; and the dread of death felled on me.

⁵Dread and trembling came on me; and darknesses covered me.

⁶And I said, Who shall give to me feathers, as of a culver; and I shall fly, and shall take rest?

⁷Lo! I went far away, and fled; and I dwelled in wilderness.

⁸I abode him, that made me safe from the littleness, either dread, of spirit; and from tempest.

⁹Lord, cast thou down, and part thou the tongues of them; for I saw wickedness and against-saying in the city.

¹⁰By day and night wickedness shall encompass it on the walls thereof; and travail and unrightfulness be in the midst of them.

¹¹And usury and guile or treachery failed not; from the streets thereof.