3. Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.
4. My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
5. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
6. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! then would I fly away, and be at rest.
7. Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah
8. I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.
9. Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10. Day and night they go about upon the walls thereof: iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof: oppression 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 mine equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.
14. We took sweet counsel together, we walked in the house of God with the throng.
15. Let death come suddenly upon them, let them go down alive into the pit: for wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.