7. So I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.
8. Surely I would flee far away. I would stay in the wilderness. Selah
9. I would hurry to my shelter from the rushing wind of the storm.”
10. Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
11. Day and night they make the rounds on her walls. Iniquity and mischief are within her.
12. Ruins are in her midst. Oppression and deceit never leave her square.
13. For if it were an enemy taunting me, I could endure it. If my foe was exalting himself over me, I could hide from him.
14. But it is you, a man like me— my companion and my close friend!
15. Together we enjoyed great fellowship. We used to walk with the throng in the House of God.
16. Let desolation come upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol— for evil is in their dwelling, among them.
17. As for me, I will call on God, and Adonai will save me.
18. Evening, morning and noon, I complain and moan, then He hears my voice.
19. He will redeem my soul in shalom from the battle against me. For many are striving with me.