Psalms 55:9
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
In Context
8“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
10Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
Cross References
Genesis 11:7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
2 Samuel 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
Jeremiah 23:14In the prophets of Jerusalem I have also seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”
John 7:45The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring 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 →