Psalm 55:10

10 Day and night they go about its walls; within are malice and mischief.

Psalm 55:10 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 55:10

Day and night they go about it, upon the walls thereof
That is, "violence" and "strife" go about the walls of it continually; men of violence and contention are the only watchmen of it: a city must be sadly guarded that has no better watch than this;

mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it;
it was full of wickedness within and without; the city, as Aben Ezra observes, was like a circle; violence and strife were as a line round about it, and mischief and sorrow the centre of it: and these two commonly go together; where mischief is, sorrow follows.

Psalm 55:10 In-Context

8 I would quickly find me a shelter from the raging wind and storm."

9 Confuse, Adonai, confound their speech! For I see violence and fighting in the city.

10 Day and night they go about its walls; within are malice and mischief.

11 Ruin is rife within it, oppression and fraud never leave its streets.

12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me; if it had been, I could have borne it. It was not my adversary who treated me with scorn; if it had been, I could have hidden myself.