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Psalm 55:14

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

12For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.
13But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.
14We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.
15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
16As for me, I will call on God. The LORD will save me.
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The memory of “sweet fellowship” makes this betrayal personal: the companion who caused harm once walked with the speaker in God’s house.

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Where else Scripture says this

5 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 84:5Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.Both passages connect walking or pilgrimage with God, though Psalm 55 recalls companionship and Psalm 84 speaks of strength in God.
Psalm 122:1A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to the LORD’s house!”God’s house is linked with shared gladness in Psalm 122 and remembered sweet fellowship in Psalm 55.
Psalm 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a …Both speakers remember being at God’s house with a crowd, recalling the joy of shared worship within a lament.
Ezekiel 33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much …The shared thread is gathering among God’s people; Ezekiel describes disobedient hearers, while Psalm 55 recalls fellowship with a companion.
Isaiah 2:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will …Both connect God’s house with people gathered together, though Isaiah speaks of instruction and Psalm 55 remembers fellowship.
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Read Psalm 55:12–14 and underline the words of friendship

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Encouragement

If shared worship is part of a painful memory, that sorrow has a place in prayer to God. Here, remembered fellowship remains part of the lament.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).