Psalms 55:10
Day and night do these go about its walls; In the midst of it are iniquity and mischief.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
9Confound, O Lord! divide their counsels! For I behold violence and strife in the city.
11Wickedness is in the midst of it; Oppression and fraud depart not from its streets.
Cross References
Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged, from their very birth; The liars go astray as soon as they are born.
Psalms 59:14Let them return at evening, Let them howl like dogs, And go round about the city!
Ezekiel 9:4and Jehovah 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 that sigh and that wail for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.
Micah 2:1Woe to them that devise iniquity, And contrive evil upon their beds; When the morning is light, they practise 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 →