Psalms 55:11
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Psalms 55:11 in other translations
| BSB | Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets. |
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| WEB | Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets. |
| ASV | Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets. |
| YLT | Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street. |
| DARBY | Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets. |
| BBE | Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets. |
| Webster | Wickedness is in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. |
What does Psalms 55:11 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 55:10-11
10-11. which is described in detail (compare Psa 7:14-16).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 55:9-15
No wickedness so distresses the believer, as that which he witnesses in those who profess to be of the church of God. Let us not be surprised at the corruptions and disorders of the church on earth, but long to see the New Jerusalem. He complains of one that had been very industrious against him. God often destroys the enemies of the church by dividing them. And an interest divided against itself cannot long stand…
Psalms 55:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 55:11
- Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
- Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
- Jeremiah 5:26-27
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
- Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Acts 7:51-52
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
- Matthew 26:4
And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
- Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord. Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- Psalms 109:2-3
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
- Ezekiel 22:1-12
Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. …
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Context
- Psalms 55:10
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
- Psalms 55:11
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
- Psalms 55:12
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:
Psalms 55:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Agravios hay en medio de ella, y el fraude y engaño no se apartan de sus plazas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Jour et nuit ils font la ronde sur ses murailles; et l’iniquité et le tourment sont au milieu d’elle; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Schadentun ist in ihrer Mitte, und Bedrückung und Trug weichen nicht von ihrer Straße. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | In Deo laudabo verbum; in Domino laudabo sermonem. In Deo speravi: non timebo quid faciat mihi homo. |