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⁷ truly, I would flee far away;
   I would lodge in the wilderness;
          Selah
⁸ I would hurry to find a shelter for myself
   from the raging wind and tempest.’

⁹ Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech;
   for I see violence and strife in the city.
¹⁰ Day and night they go around it
   on its walls,
and iniquity and trouble are within it;
¹¹   ruin is in its midst;
oppression and fraud
   do not depart from its market-place.

¹² It is not enemies who taunt me—
   I could bear that;
it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me—
   I could hide from them.
¹³ But it is you, my equal,
   my companion, my familiar friend,
¹⁴ with whom I kept pleasant company;
   we walked in the house of God with the throng.
¹⁵ Let death come upon them;
   let them go down alive to Sheol;
   for evil is in their homes and in their hearts.

¹⁶ But I call upon God,
   and the Lord will save me.
¹⁷ Evening and morning and at noon
   I utter my complaint and moan,
   and he will hear my voice.
¹⁸ He will redeem me unharmed
   from the battle that I wage,
   for many are arrayed against me.
¹⁹ God, who is enthroned from of old,
          Selah
   will hear, and will humble them—
because they do not change,
   and do not fear God.

²⁰ My companion laid hands on a friend
   and violated a covenant with me^*
21 with speech smoother than butter,
   but with a heart set on war;
with words that were softer than oil,
   but in fact were drawn swords.

²² Cast your burden^* on the Lord,
   and he will sustain you;
he will never permit
   the righteous to be moved.

²³ But you, O God, will cast them down
   into the lowest pit;
the bloodthirsty and treacherous
   shall not live out half their days.
But I will trust in you.