A moment in scripture
Psalms 55:11
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Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
- Psalms 55:10
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
- Psalms 55:12
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
- Psalms 55:13
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.