Psalm 55:9 “O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and stri…”

Psalm 55:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

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Cross references

“divide”

Genesis 11:7–9 2 Samuel 15:31 Acts 23:6–10 2 Samuel 17:1–14 John 7:45–53

Genesis 11:7–9 · BSB

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

2 Samuel 15:31 · BSB

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

Acts 23:6–10 · BSB

Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the 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…

2 Samuel 17:1–14 · BSB

Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

John 7:45–53 · BSB

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”

“I have”

Jeremiah 6:7 Jeremiah 23:14 Matthew 23:37 Matthew 23:38

Jeremiah 6:7 · BSB

As 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 23:14 · BSB

And 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;…

Matthew 23:37 · BSB

O 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!

Matthew 23:38 · BSB

Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”

10Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.

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