Parallel Verses
Amplified
Destruction is within her;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Holman Bible
oppression and deceit never leave its marketplace.
International Standard Version
Wickedness is at the center of it; fraud and lies never leave its streets.
A Conservative Version
Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
American Standard Version
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
Bible in Basic English
Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
Darby Translation
Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
Julia Smith Translation
Mischief in her midst: oppression and deceit will not depart from her wide place.
King James 2000
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Destruction [is] within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its public square.
Modern King James verseion
Covetings are in her midst; oppression and guile will not depart from her streets.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wickedness is therein; deceit and guile go not out of her streets.
NET Bible
Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.
New Heart English Bible
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies do not depart from her streets.
The Emphasized Bible
Engulfing ruin, is in her midst, And there depart not from her broadway, oppression and deceit.
Webster
Wickedness is in the midst of it: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
World English Bible
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 55:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Betrayal By A Friend
10
Day and night they go around her walls;
Wickedness and mischief are in her midst.
Destruction is within her;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.
For it is not an enemy who taunts me—
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who has hated me who insolently exalts himself against me—
Then I could hide from him.
Cross References
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of curses and deceit (fraud) and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness [injustice and sin].
Psalm 5:9
For there is nothing trustworthy or reliable or truthful in what they say;
Their heart is destruction [just a treacherous chasm, a yawning gulf of lies].
Their throat is an open grave;
They [glibly] flatter with their [silken] tongue.
Psalm 109:2-3
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil,
And they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness [of sin, of injustice, of wrongdoing];
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.
Jeremiah 5:26-27
‘For wicked men are found among My people,
They watch like fowlers who lie in wait;
They set a trap,
They catch men.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
“They bend their tongue like their bow;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:1-12
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Matthew 26:4
and plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill Him.
Acts 7:51-52
“You stiff-necked and stubborn people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always actively resisting the Holy Spirit. You are doing just as your fathers did.