Psalms 55
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Psalms 55:9-16

9Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

10Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;

11ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.

12For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.

13But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

14We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.

15Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

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

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