Psalm 55

¹Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

²Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,

³Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

⁴My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

⁵Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

⁶And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;

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.