55:10 Day and night they walk around on its walls, 1
while wickedness and destruction 2 are within it.
55:11 Disaster is within it;
violence 3 and deceit do not depart from its public square.
55:12 Indeed, 4 it is not an enemy who insults me,
or else I could bear it;
it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, 5
or else I could hide from him.
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.
3 tn Or “injury, harm.”
5 tn Or “for.”
6 tn Heb “[who] magnifies against me.” See Pss 35:26; 38:16.