Psalms 55:9

Psalms chapter 55 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.8I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.

v.9This passage

v.10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

2 Samuel 15:31
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
Acts 23:6
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Jeremiah 23:14
In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
John 7:45
The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why did ye not bring him?
Jeremiah 6:7
As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.