The psalmist is upset because of the people he is forced to live among. They love deception and violence, and their constant influence is grating on his nerves. He prays for deliverance, and laments that he has lived in the wrong place for too long. The more we look at this corrupted world, the more we realize that there is no place to go. What we really need is not a new location, but God’s deliverance.
LORD, return to us, and deliver us from ourselves. We are in the wrong place.
Psalm 120