Psalms 55:5-16

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.

¹²For if mine enemy had cursed me; soothly I had suffered. And if he, that hated me, had spoken great things on me; in hap I had hid me from him.

¹³But thou art a man of one will; my leader, and my known.

¹⁴Which tookest together sweet meats and fellowship with me; we went with consent in the house of God.

¹⁵Death come on them; and go they down quick into hell. For way-wardnesses be in the dwelling places of them; in the midst of them.

¹⁶But I cried to thee, Lord; and the Lord saved me.