Psalm 55:10 {54:11}
Good News Translation
surrounding it day and night, filling it with crime and trouble.

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

Contemporary English Version
and they are like guards on patrol day and night. The city is full of trouble, evil,

New American Bible
making rounds on its walls day and night. Within are mischief and trouble;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,

Day

Psalm 59:6,14,15 They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city. . . .

1 Samuel 19:11 Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife, had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die:

2 Samuel 17:1,2 And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night. . . .

Hosea 7:6 Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.

Micah 2:1,2 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee. . . .

John 18:3,28 Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. . . .

Acts 9:24 But their lying in wait was made known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night, that they might kill him.

mischief

2 Samuel 16:21,22 And Achitophel said to Absalom: Go in to the concubines of thy father, whom he hath left to keep the house: that when all Israel shall hear that thou hast disgraced thy father, their hands may be strengthened with thee. . . .

Isaiah 59:6-15 Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands. . . .

Ezekiel 9:4 And the Lord said to him: Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.

Zephaniah 3:1-3 Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove. . . .

Context
Cast Your Burden upon the LORD
9Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city. 10Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,11And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.…
Cross References
Psalm 12:8
The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.

Psalm 55:9
Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

Psalm 55:11
And injustice. And usury and deceit have not departed from its streets.

Psalm 55:9
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