PSALMS 55:5-21

⁵Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

⁶And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.

⁷Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah

⁸I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.

⁹Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

¹⁰Day and night they go about upon the walls thereof: iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

¹¹Wickedness is in the midst thereof: oppression and guile depart not from her streets.

¹²For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

¹³But it was thou, a man mine equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

¹⁴We took sweet counsel together, we walked in the house of God with the throng.

¹⁵Let death come suddenly upon them, let them go down alive into the pit: for wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

¹⁶As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.

¹⁷Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan: and he shall hear my voice.

¹⁸He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for they were many that strove with me.

¹⁹God shall hear, and answer them, even he that abideth of old, Selah the men who have no changes, and who fear not God.

²⁰He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: he hath profaned his covenant.

²¹His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.