8. I would hurry to find a shelterfrom the raging wind and tempest.”
9. Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues;for I see violence and strife in the city.
10. Day and night they go around iton its walls,and iniquity and trouble are within it;
11. ruin is in its midst; oppression and frauddo not depart from its marketplace.
12. For it is not an enemy who taunts me—then I could bear it;it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me—then I could hide from him.
13. But it is you, a man, my equal,my companion, my familiar friend.
14. We used to take sweet counsel together;within God’s house we walked in the throng.