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.