I’ve always loved Psalm 55 even though the subject is unpleasant: Persecution from one’s “friends.”

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me; Then I could bear it. Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me; Then I could hide from him. But it was you, a man my equal, My companion and my acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked to the house of God in the throng. (Psalm 55.12 – 14, NKJV)

It’s the proposed solution that always grabs my attention. Have you ever felt like this?

So I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. Indeed, I would wander far off, And remain in the wilderness. Selah  (Psalm 55.6, 7, NKJV)

But the real solution is, as always, prayer:

As for me, I will call upon God, And the LORD shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice. He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, For there were many against me. God will hear, and afflict them, Even He who abides from of old.

Selah (Psalm 55.16 – 19, NKJV)

And there’s a solution, one I memorized decades ago along with verse 6:

Cast your burden on the LORD, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved. (Psalm 55.22, NKJV)