Psalms 55:9
Destroy, O LORD, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Webster 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
8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
10Day and night they go about it upon its walls: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Cross References
Genesis 11:7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
2 Samuel 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night;
Jeremiah 23:14I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evil-doers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah.
John 7:45Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why have ye 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 →