11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof: oppression and guile depart not from her streets.
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:
13. But it was thou, a man mine equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.
14. We took sweet counsel together, we walked in the house of God with the throng.
15. Let death come suddenly upon them, let them go down alive into the pit: for wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
16. As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
17. Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan: and he shall hear my voice.
18. He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for they were many that strove with me.
19. God shall hear, and answer them, even he that abideth of old, Selah the men who have no changes, and who fear not God.