Psalms 55:9-16

9Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.

10Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

11Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

12Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him.

13But it is you, a man like me, my close friend in whom I confided.

14We would share personal thoughts with each other; in God’s temple we would walk together among the crowd.

15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

16As for me, I will call out to God, and the Lord will deliver me.