Psalms 55:1-17

1Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.12 2Attend to me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; 3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. 4My heart is greatly pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. 5Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.3 6And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then I would fly away, and be at rest. 7Lo, then I would wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. 8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

9Destroy, O Lord, anddivide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10Day and night they go about her upon her walls: mischief also and sorrow are in her midst. 11Wickedness is in her midst: deceit 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 magnified himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13But it was thou, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.4 14We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company.5 15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.6

16As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me. 17Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.