Psalms 55:10

10 Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble [are] in its midst.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 55:10 In-Context

8 I would hurry to my refuge from [the] raging wind [and] storm."

9 Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.

10 Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble [are] in its midst.

11 Destruction [is] within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its public square.

12 For [it is] not an enemy [that] taunts me, or I could bear [it]. [It is not] one who hates me [that] magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him.