Bible verse
Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
Psalm 55:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Psalm 55.
7 How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
8 I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”
9 O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
11 Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
12 For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
13 But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend.
14 We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.
15 Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
KJV
Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
ASV
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
ERV
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: oppression and guile depart not from her streets.
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