Psalms 55:7-12

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.

¹²(55-13) For it was not an enemy that taunted me, then I could have borne it; neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me, then I would have hid myself from him.