Psalms 55:6-14

⁶Then I say, O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.

⁷Behold, I would wander far away, And take up my abode in a wilderness. Pause.

⁸I would hasten away to a shelter From the rushing wind and tempest.

⁹Confound, O Lord! divide their counsels! For I behold violence and strife in the city.

¹⁰Day and night do these go about its walls; In the midst of it are iniquity and mischief.

¹¹Wickedness is in the midst of it; Oppression and fraud depart not from its streets.

¹²It was not an enemy that reviled me, Then I could have borne it; Nor one that hated me, who rose up against me; From him I could have hid myself.

¹³But it was thou, a man my equal, My friend, and my acquaintance.

¹⁴We held sweet converse together, And walked to the house of God in company.