Psalms 55:5-11

⁵(55-6) Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

⁶(55-7) And I said: 'Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.

⁷(55-8) Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah

⁸(55-9) I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'

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

¹⁰(55-11) Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

¹¹(55-12) Wickedness is in the midst thereof; oppression and guile depart not from her broad place.