Mazmur 55:4

55:4 My heart beats violently ¹  within me;

the horrors of death overcome me. ² 

Mazmur 55:10

55:10 Day and night they walk around on its walls, ³ 

while wickedness and destruction ⁴  are within it.

[55:4]  ¹ tn Heb “shakes, trembles.”

[55:4]  ² tn Heb “the terrors of death have fallen on me.”

[55:10]  ³ 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.

[55:10]  ⁴ sn Wickedness and destruction. These terms are also closely associated in Ps 7:14.