Psalms 55:9

In 11 translations

BSB

O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

KJV

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

WEB

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

ASV

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

LSV

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, || For I saw violence and strife in a city.

YLT

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

DBY

Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

DRC54:10

Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

GNV

Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie.

JPS55:10

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

LXXE54:10

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gainsaying in the city.

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WLC55:10

בַּלַּ֣ע אֲ֭דֹנָי פַּלַּ֣ג לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם כִּֽי־רָאִ֨יתִי חָמָ֖ס וְרִ֣יב בָּעִֽיר׃KJV:Ps.55.9

LXX-Br54:10

Καταπόντισον Κύριε καὶ καταδίελε τὰς γλώσσας αὐτῶν, ὅτι εἶδον ἀνομίαν καὶ ἀντιλογίαν ἐν τῇ πόλει.

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• Jeremiah 6:7As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
• 2 Samuel 15:31Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”
• Genesis 11:7–9Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is…
• Acts 23:6–10Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I…
• Jeremiah 23:14And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to…
• 2 Samuel 17:1–14Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David. I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with…
• John 7:45–53Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?” “Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered. “Have you also been deceived?” replied the…
• Matthew 23:37–38O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Look, your…

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