Psalms 55:7-13

⁷See, then I would wander far away; I would stay in the wilderness. Selah

⁸I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.”

⁹Devour them, Lord, confuse their language! For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

¹⁰Day and night they go about on its walls; iniquity and mischief are in the middle of it.

¹¹Wickedness is in the middle of it; oppression and deceit do not leave its streets.

¹²For it was not an enemy who rebuked me, then I could have borne it; neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

¹³But it was you, a man equal to myself, my companion and my close friend.