Psalms 55:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.”
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“O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 55:9 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 11:7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
- 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!”
- 2 Samuel 17:1Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
- 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.
- 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 Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
- Matthew 23:37O 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!
- John 7:45Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”
- Acts 23:6Then 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 am on trial.”
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