8 I would hasten my escapeFrom the windy storm and tempest.”
9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues,For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they go around it on its walls;Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it.
11 Destruction is in its midst;Oppression and deceit do not depart from its streets.
12 For it is not an enemy who reproaches me;Then I could bear it.Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me;Then I could hide from him.
13 But it was you, a man my equal,My companion and my acquaintance.
14 We took sweet counsel together,And walked to the house of God in the throng.