Psalms 55:10
(55:11) Day and night do these encompass it upon her walls: and wrong and trouble are in her midst.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
9(55:10) Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city;
11(55:12) Mischief is in her midst: guile and deceit depart not from her streets.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:11But Saul sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning; and Michal his wife told it to David, saying, If thou save not thy life this night, tomorrow thou wilt be put to death.
2 Samuel 16:21And Achithophel said unto Abshalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, whom he hath left to guard the house; and all Israel will hear that thou art in bad odor with thy father: and then will the hands of all that are with thee become strong.
Psalms 58:3(58:4) The wicked are estranged [from goodness] from the womb: those who speak lies go astray from their very birth.
Psalms 59:14(59:15) And they will return in the evening; they will howl like dogs, and go round about the city.
Ezekiel 9:4And the Lord said unto him, Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and inscribe a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who complain because of all the abominations which are done in the midst of it.
Micah 2:1Woe to those that devise wickedness, and resolve on evil upon their couches! by the first light of the morning they execute it, if they have it 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 →