Psalms 55:8-17

⁸I would find myself a shelter from raging wind and tempest.

⁹Confuse them, Lord, upset their plans; for I see violence and strife in the city.

¹⁰By day and by night they make their rounds on the city walls, while within is crime and trouble,

¹¹within is ruin. Her market-place is never free of deceit and tyranny.

¹²The taunts were not those of a foe that I could have borne; the disdain was not that of an enemy I could have shunned them:

¹³but it was you, my equal, my dear and familiar friend.

¹⁴We used to be so close, together we walked in God's house with the crowd.

¹⁵May death suddenly take them, may they go down to Sheol alive, for evil lives in their homes and their hearts.

¹⁶But I will call on God, the Lord will save me.

¹⁷Evening and morning and noon I lament and moan. He will hear my voice;