Bible in Basic English
"But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend."
— Psalms 55:13, Bible in Basic English
“But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.”
“But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend. ”
“But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.”
“Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living. ”
By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.
Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.
We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.
Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.