Psalms 55:6-20

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 it 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 its 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 Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

¹⁶As for me, I will call upon God; And Jehovah will save me.

¹⁷Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan; And he will 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 will 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.