Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof. The city, the holy city had become a den of wickedness; conspirators met in the dark, and talked in little knots in the streets even in broad daylight. Meanwhile the country was being roused to revolt, and the traitors without threatened to environ the city, and act in concert with the rebels within.
Jerusalem fell into rebellion with Absalom and became a harlot, her streets filled with nothing but violence and strife day and night. Where once was loyalty and love, there remained only wickedness legalized, deceit and guile never departing from her. The royal city, the holy city, became a den of mutual wrong and vexation.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 55:9-15
Wickedness is in the midst thereof,.... All manner of wickedness; abominable wickedness; wickedness as arrived to its highest pitch, and as having filled up its measure; see Eze 9:4; deceit and guile depart not from her streets; where truth was fallen, and equity could not enter, Isa 59:14; for these are contrary the one to the other, and are incompatible; where the one prevails, the other must give way.