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Psalms 55:9
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Lord, confuse and confound their speech,for I see violence and strife in the city;
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
Lord, destroy and confuse their words, because I see violence and fighting in the city.
Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.
Confuse [my enemies], O Lord, divide their tongues [destroying their schemes], For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Confuse them, Lord, divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie.
Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues,For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
Confuse my enemies, Lord! Upset their plans. Cruelty and violence are all I see in the city,
I would quickly find me a shelter from the raging wind and storm."
Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
My Lord, confuse their words and stop their plans. I see so much cruelty and fighting in this city.
Destroy, O LORD, and render useless their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Confuse the speech of my enemies, O Lord! I see violence and riots in the city,
Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.
Swallow up, O Lord; divide their tongue; for I see violence and strife in the city.
This goeth daye and night aboute the walles, myschefe and vyce are in the myddest of it.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'
Destroy, O Lord, and diuide their tongues: for I haue seene violence and strife in the citie.
Destroy their tongues O Lorde, and deuide [them]: for I haue seene oppression and strife in the citie.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gain saying in the city.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Lord, caste thou doun, departe thou the tungis of hem; for Y siy wickidnesse and ayenseiyng in the citee.
Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Confuse them, Lord, and frustrate their plans, for I see violence and conflict in the city.
Mix them up, O Lord. Divide their tongues. For I have seen fighting and trouble in the city.
Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city.
Confuse, O My Lord, divide their speech, For I have seen violence and contention in the city;
(54-10) Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.
Come down hard, Lord—slit their tongues. I'm appalled how they've split the city Into rival gangs prowling the alleys Day and night spoiling for a fight, trash piled in the streets, Even shopkeepers gouging and cheating in broad daylight.
Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
divide: That is, "Distract their counsels; and let their devices be confounded" - and the prayer was heard. See the parallel passages. Genesis 11:7-9, 2 Samuel 15:31, 2 Samuel 17:1-14, John 7:45-53, Acts 23:6-10
I have: Jeremiah 6:7, Jeremiah 23:14, Matthew 23:37, Matthew 23:38
Reciprocal: Genesis 6:11 - filled 2 Samuel 22:3 - thou savest Psalms 26:10 - In Psalms 56:7 - in thine Ecclesiastes 5:8 - thou seest Habakkuk 1:3 - General Acts 2:3 - cloven Acts 21:35 - for Acts 23:7 - there
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Destroy, O Lord,.... Or "swallow up" s, as Pharaoh and his host were swallowed up in the Red sea; or as Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, were swallowed up in the earth; so all the enemies of Christ and his church will be destroyed; and death, the last of them, will be swallowed up in victory, Isaiah 25:8. The Targum interprets it, "destroy", or "scatter their counsel": but this seems to be intended in the next clause;
[and] divide their tongues: as at the confusion of languages at Babel, to which the allusion is: this had its accomplishment in Absalom's counsellors according to David's wish, 2 Samuel 15:31; and in the Jewish sanhedrim in Christ's time, and in the witnesses they produced against him, Luke 23:51; and of which there is an instance in the council of the Jews, held on account of the Apostle Paul, Acts 23:7;
for I have seen violence and strife in the city: in the city of Jerusalem, now left by David, and possessed by Absalom, by whom "violence" was done to David's wives, through the advice of Ahithophel; and "strife", contention, and rebellion, were fomented among the people: this David saw, understood, and perceived, by the intelligence brought him from time to time: and in the times of Christ the kingdom of heaven suffered "violence" in this place, and he endured the "contradiction" of sinners against himself.
s בלע "degluti", Montanus, Tigurine version; "absorbe", Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Destroy, O Lord - The word rendered “destroy,” properly means to “swallow up;” to “devour” with the idea of greediness. Isaiah 28:4; Exodus 7:12; Jonah 1:17; Jeremiah 51:34. Then it is used in the sense of “destroy,” Job 20:18; Proverbs 1:12. The reference here is to the persons who had conspired against David. It is a prayer that they, and their counsels, might be destroyed: such a prayer as people always offer who pray for victory in battle. It is a prayer that the may be successful in what they regard as a righteous cause; but this implies a prayer that their enemies may be defeated and overcome. That is, they pray for success in what they have undertaken; and if it is right for them to attempt to do the thing, it is not wrong to pray that they may be succesful.
And divide their tongues - There is evident allusion here to the confusion of tongues at Babel Genesis 11:1-9; and as the language of those who undertook to build that tower was confounded so that they could not understand each other, so the psalmist prays that the counsels of those engaged against him might be confounded, or that they might be divided and distracted in their plans, so that they could not act in harmony. It is very probable that there is an allusion here to the prayer which David offered when he learned that Ahithophel was among the conspirators 2 Samuel 15:31; “And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.” This would tend to divide and distract; the purposes of Absalom, and secure his defeat.
For I have seen violence and strife in the city - In Jerusalem. Perhaps he had learned that among the conspirators there was not entire harmony, but that there were elements of “strife” and discord which led him to hope that their counsels would be confounded. There was little homogeneoushess of aim and purpose among the followers of Absalom; and perhaps David knew enough of Ahithophel to see that his views, though he might be enlisted in the cause of the rebellion, would not be likely to harmonize with the views of the masses of those who were engaged in the revolt.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 55:9. Destroy, O lord — Swallow them up-confound them.
Divide their tongues — Let his counsellors give opposite advice. Let them never agree, and let their devices be confounded. And the prayer was heard. Hushai and Ahithophel gave opposite counsel. Absalom followed that of Hushai; and Ahithophel, knowing that the steps advised by Hushai would bring Absalom's affairs to ruin, went and hanged himself. See 2 Samuel 15:1-17.
Violence and strife in the city. — They have been concerting violent measures; and thus are full of contention.
