Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
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.
American Standard Version
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
Amplified
Destruction is within her;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.
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 about it, upon the walls of it. Iniquity and mischief also are in the midst of it. 11 Wickedness is in the midst of it. Oppression and deceit depart not from its streets. 12 For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.
Cross References
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Psalm 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they {deceive (LXX/NT)}.
Psalm 109:2-3
for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Jeremiah 5:26-27
For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.
Ezekiel 22:1-12
Moreover the word of LORD came to me, saying,
Matthew 26:4
and they deliberated so that they might take Jesus by trickery, and kill him.
Acts 7:51-52
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers, ye also.