Psalms 55:4-21

⁴(55:5) My heart is sorely pained within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

⁵(55:6) Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and shuddering hath covered me.

⁶(55:7) And I said, Oh that some one would give me wings like a dove! I would fly away and dwell quietly.

⁷(55:8) Lo, I would flee far away, I would spend my night in the wilderness. Selah.

⁸(55:9) I would prepare hastily a refuge for me from the sweeping wind and from storm.

⁹(55:10) Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city;

¹⁰(55:11) Day and night do these encompass it upon her walls: and wrong and trouble are in her midst.

¹¹(55:12) Mischief is in her midst: guile and deceit depart not from her streets.

¹²(55:13) For it is not an enemy that reproached me; then I could bear it: not he that hateth me hath magnified himself against me; then I would have hidden myself from him;

¹³(55:14) But it is thou, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance;

¹⁴(55:15) So that we took sweet secret counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in tumultuous company.

¹⁵(55:16) Let him dispense death over them; let them go down alive into the nether world; for evil is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

¹⁶(55:17) I, however, will call on God: and the Lord will save me.

¹⁷(55:18) At evening and morning and noon will I make my complaint and moan: and he heareth my voice.—

¹⁸(55:19) He delivereth my soul in peace from the battle against me; for in multitudes are they contending with me.

¹⁹(55:20) God will hear, and humble them—yea, he that sitteth enthroned from the oldest time Selah—those who dread no changes, and fear not God.

²⁰(55:21) He stretcheth out his hands against those at peace with him: he violateth his covenant.

²¹(55:22) The creamy words of his mouth are smooth, yet there is war in his heart; his words are softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.