American Standard Version
"Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets. "
— Psalms 55:11, American Standard Version
“Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.”
“Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.”
“Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.”
“In God will I praise the word, in the Lord will I praise his speech. In God have I hoped, I will not fear what man can do to me.”
“Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.”
“Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.”
I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
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:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.
We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng.