“Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 55 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.