Psalms 55:11
Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they deceive (LXX/NT).
Psalms 109:2for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Jeremiah 9:3And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.
Matthew 26:4and they deliberated so that they might take Jesus by trickery, and kill him.
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 →