Psalms 55:11
Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
Darby Translation
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 certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 109:2For the mouth of the wicked [man] and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against 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; wasting and destruction are in their paths;
Jeremiah 9:3And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
Matthew 26:4and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety 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 →