Psalms 55:10
By day and by night they make their rounds on the city walls, while within is crime and trouble,
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9Confuse them, Lord, upset their plans; for I see violence and strife in the city.
11within is ruin. Her market-place is never free of deceit and tyranny.
Cross References
Psalms 58:3The wicked go astray from the womb liars take the wrong path from their birth.
Psalms 59:14At evening they come, and, howling like dogs, make their round in the city.
Micah 2:1Woe to those who lie awake planning evil, who in the light of morning carry out their plan because they have the power to do it.
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 →