Psalms 55:9
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language,for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
New Heart English Bible
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 us 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 also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them 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 did you not 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 →