Psalms 55:10
Day and night they go about it, upon the walls of it. Iniquity and mischief also are in the midst of it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
9Destroy, O LORD, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
11Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:11And Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou will be slain.
2 Samuel 16:21And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to thy father's concubines that he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that thou are abhorred by thy father. Then the hands of all who are with thee will be strong.
Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Psalms 59:14And at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog, and go round about the city.
Ezekiel 9:4And LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.
Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 55:10-16
Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. 11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. 12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13 But it was thou, a man… Read the whole commentary →