King James Version
Psalms 55:11 in the King James Version says “Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 55 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.”
Psalms 55:11 · KJV
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
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:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. mine equal: Heb. according to my rank
KJV Study — Public Domain
“is in the midst”
H7130properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“depart”
H4185to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive)
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