3. Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4. My heart is severely pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5. Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
6. And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then I would fly away, and be at rest.
7. Lo, then I would wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.
8. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
9. Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10. Day and night they go about it upon its walls: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
11. Wickedness is in the midst of it: deceit 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 magnified himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13. But it was thou, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.
14. We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in company.
15. Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
16. As for me, I will call upon God: and the LORD will save me.