3. because of the voice of an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge against me.
4. My heart trembles within me, and deathly terrors fall on me.
5. Fear and trembling come on me, and horror overwhelms me.
6. So I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.
7. Look, I would flee far away. I would dwell in the wilderness. Selah
8. I would hurry to my refuge from the raging wind and storm.”
9. Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.
10. Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are in its midst.
11. Destruction is within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its public square.
12. For it is not an enemy that taunts me, or I could bear it. It is not one who hates me that magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him.
13. But it is you, a man my equal, my friend and confidant.
14. We who would take sweet counsel together; in the house of God we would walk with the throng.
15. Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil is in their home and heart.
16. As for me, I will call to God, and Yahweh will save me.