Psalms 55:7-14

⁷Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;

⁸I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest.

⁹Swallow them up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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

¹¹Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.

¹²For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me — then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me — then would I have hidden myself from him;

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

¹⁴We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng.