Psalms 55:11
Wickedness is in the midst of it; Oppression and fraud depart not from its streets.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
In Context
10Day and night do these go about its walls; In the midst of it are iniquity and mischief.
Cross References
Psalms 5:9For in their mouth there is no truth; Their heart is malignity; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 109:2For the mouths of the wicked and the deceitful are opened against me; They speak against me with a lying tongue.
Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; They make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; Oppression and destruction are in their paths.
Jeremiah 9:3They bend their tongues, like their bows, for lies, And not by truth do they grow mighty in the earth; They proceed from wickedness to wickedness, And have no regard to me, saith Jehovah.
Matthew 26:4and took counsel together that they might seize Jesus by craft, and put him to death.
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 →