Day and night they walk around on its walls, ¹  while wickedness and destruction ²  are within it.

biblegateway Psa 55:10

Day and night they go around her upon her walls, And iniquity and mischief are in her midst.

day and night they make the rounds on its walls. Crime and trouble are within it;

Day and night they go around on top of the city walls. Trouble and misery are everywhere.

biblegateway Psa 55:10

Day and night they prowl about on its walls; malice and abuse are within it.

Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;

bibleoremus Psa 55:10

Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;

day and night they encircle it, all along its walls; it is filled with trouble and mischief,

biblegateway Psa 55:10

Day and night they go around it on its walls; Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow [are] in the midst of it.

biblegateway Psa 55:10

Day and night they walk around on its walls, ¹  while wickedness and destruction ²  are within it.

¹ tn Heb “day and night they surround it, upon its walls.” Personified “violence and conflict” are the likely subjects. They are compared to watchmen on the city’s walls.

² sn Wickedness and destruction. These terms are also closely associated in Ps 7:14.