9Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.


In Context

6 And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,

7 Lo, I move far off, I lodge in a wilderness. Selah.

8 I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

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

10 By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,

11 Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

Psalm 55:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

55:9Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

55:9Confuse the wicked, O Lord, confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

55:9Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

55:9Swallow them up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

55:9Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.