He would make haste for my deliverance [a]from the stormy wind and tempest.

Destroy, O Lord, and [b]divide their tongues: for I have seen cruelty and strife in the city.

10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof, both [c]iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 55:8 From the cruel rage and tyranny of Saul.
  2. Psalm 55:9 As in the confusion of Babylon when the wicked conspired against God.
  3. Psalm 55:10 All laws and good orders are broken, and only vice and dissolation reigneth under Saul.

I would hurry to my place of shelter,(A)
    far from the tempest and storm.(B)

Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words,(C)
    for I see violence and strife(D) in the city.(E)
10 Day and night they prowl(F) about on its walls;
    malice and abuse are within it.

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