Psalms 59:7
Behold! with their mouths they belch out malice; Swords are upon their lips; “For who,” say they, “will hear?”
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
In Context
6Let them return at evening, Let them howl like dogs, And go round about the city!
8Yet thou, O LORD! wilt laugh at them; Thou wilt hold all the nations in derision!
Cross References
Job 22:12Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the stars, how high they are!
Psalms 10:13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, “He careth not for it”?
Psalms 57:4My life is in the midst of lions; I dwell among them that breathe out fire; Among men whose teeth are spears and arrows, And whose tongue is a sharp sword.
Psalms 73:11And they say, “How doth God know? How can there be knowledge with the Most High?”
Psalms 94:7And they say, “The LORD doth not see, The God of Jacob doth not regard!”
Proverbs 12:18There is who babbleth like the piercing of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:2-8
Prayer for Deliverance. 1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord . 4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold. 5 Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked… Read the whole commentary →