Psalms 55:4-21

⁴Mine heart trembleth within mee, and the terrours of death are fallen vpon me.

⁵Feare and trembling are come vpon mee, and an horrible feare hath couered me.

⁶And I said, Oh that I had wings like a doue: then would I flie away and rest.

⁷Beholde, I woulde take my flight farre off, and lodge in the wildernes. Selah.

⁸Hee would make haste for my deliuerance from the stormie winde and tempest.

⁹Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie.

¹⁰Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are in the middes of it.

¹¹Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.

¹²Surely mine enemie did not defame mee: for I could haue borne it: neither did mine aduersarie exalt himselfe against mee: for I would haue hid me from him.

¹³But it was thou, O man, euen my companion, my guide and my familiar:

¹⁴Which delited in consulting together, and went into the House of God as companions.

¹⁵Let death sense vpon them: let them goe downe quicke into the graue: for wickednes is in their dwellings, euen in the middes of them.

¹⁶But I will call vnto God, and the Lord will saue me.

¹⁷Euening and morning, and at noone will I pray, and make a noyse, and he wil heare my voice.

¹⁸He hath deliuered my soule in peace from the battel, that was against me: for many were with me.

¹⁹God shall heare and afflict them, euen hee that reigneth of olde, Selah. because they haue no changes, therefore they feare not God.

²⁰Hee layed his hande vpon such, as be at peace with him, and he brake his couenant.

²¹The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.