Psalms 55:11
(55:12) Mischief is in her midst: guile and deceit depart not from her streets.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
In Context
10(55:11) Day and night do these encompass it upon her walls: and wrong and trouble are in her midst.
Cross References
Psalms 5:9(5:10) For there is not in their mouth any sincerity; their inward part is full of deception; an open sepulchre is their throat: they flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken with me with the tongue of falsehood.
Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to what is evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness; wasting and destruction are on their highways.
Jeremiah 9:3(9:2) And they bend their tongues, their bow of falsehood, and not for the truth are they valiant in the land; for from evil to evil do they proceed, and me they know not, saith the Lord.
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 →