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Psalms 55:11

within is ruin. Her market-place is never free of deceit and tyranny.

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In The King James Version

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

In Context

10By day and by night they make their rounds on the city walls, while within is crime and trouble,

12The taunts were not those of a foe that I could have borne; the disdain was not that of an enemy I could have shunned them:

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Cross References

Psalms 5:9For their mouth is a stranger to truth, their heart is a pit of destruction. Their throat is a wide open grave, their tongue the smooth tongue of the hypocrite.

Psalms 109:2for their wicked mouths they have opened against me, they speak to me with tongues that are false,

Matthew 26:4and plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

King James VersionBíblia Portuguesa MundialLuther Bibel (Deutsch)Bible Louis Segond (Français)Библия (Русский)新标点和合本성경 (한국어)الكتاب المقدس باللغة العربية، فان دايكBibbia Diodati (Italiano)Kinh Thánh (Tiếng Việt)Biblia Cornilescu (Română)Polish Biblia Gdanska (1881)Statenvertaling (Nederlands)

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