The Violence of the City and the Betrayal

Psalms 55:9-15

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,

Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear it , He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.

But thou, a man--as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.

When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol--alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.