Psalms 55:9
O God, I have announced my life to you. You have placed my tears in your sight, and even in your promise.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
In Context
8because of this, nothing will save them. In your anger, you will crush the people.
Cross References
Genesis 11:7Therefore, come, let us descend, and in that place confound their tongue, so that they may not listen, each one to the voice of his neighbor.”
2 Samuel 17:1Then Ahithophel said to Absalom: “I will choose for myself twelve thousand men, and rising up, I will pursue David this night.
Jeremiah 23:14And in the prophets of Jerusalem, I have seen the likeness of adulterers and the path of falsehood. And they have strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that each one would not convert from his malice. They have all become to me like Sodom, and its inhabitants have become like Gomorrah.”
John 7:45Therefore, the attendants went to the high priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them, “Why have you not brought him?”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 55:2-9
Supplications of David in Distress. 1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. 2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. 4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, Oh that I had wings… Read the whole commentary →