8. I would hasten to escape and to find a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.
9. Destroy [their schemes], O Lord, confuse their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10. Day and night they go about on its walls; iniquity and mischief are in its midst.
11. Violence and ruin are within it; fraud and guile do not depart from its streets and marketplaces.
12. For it is not an enemy who reproaches and taunts me–then I might bear it; nor is it one who has hated me who insolently vaunts himself against me–then I might hide from him.
13. But it was you, a man my equal, my companion and my familiar friend.