PSALMS 55:7-14

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 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 her 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.