8. Behold, I have fled far away, and I linger in solitude.
9. I waited for him who saved me from a weak-minded spirit and from a tempest.
10. Cast them down, O Lord, and divide their tongues. For I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
11. Day and night, iniquity will surround it upon its walls, and hardship is in its midst,
12. with injustice. And usury and deceit have not fallen away from its streets.
13. For if my enemy had spoken evil about me, certainly, I would have sustained it. And if he who hated me had been speaking great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.
14. Truly, you are a man of one mind: my leader and my acquaintance,