3. Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.
4. My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.
5. Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.
6. And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,
7. Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.
8. I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.
9. Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.
10. By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness [are] in its midst,
11. Mischiefs [are] in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.
12. For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear [it], He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.
13. But thou, a man--as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.
14. When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.
15. Desolations [are] upon them, They go down [to] Sheol--alive, For wickedness [is] in their dwelling, in their midst.