5. Fear and trembling have come upon me; horror and fright have overwhelmed me.
6. And I say, Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
7. Yes, I would wander far away, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
8. I would hasten to escape and to find a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.
9. Destroy [their schemes], O Lord, confuse their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10. Day and night they go about on its walls; iniquity and mischief are in its midst.
11. Violence and ruin are within it; fraud and guile do not depart from its streets and marketplaces.
12. For it is not an enemy who reproaches and taunts me–then I might bear it; nor is it one who has hated me who insolently vaunts himself against me–then I might hide from him.
13. But it was you, a man my equal, my companion and my familiar friend.
14. We had sweet fellowship together and used to walk to the house of God in company.