I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
Psalm 58:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Break their teeth, O God, in their mouths; break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord. American Standard Version (1901) Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah. Common English Bible God, break their teeth out of their mouths! Tear out the lions’ jawbones, LORD! Catholic Public Domain Version Rise up to meet me, and see: even you, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Reach out to visit all nations. Do not take pity on all those who work iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity. |
I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made them drop their prey from their teeth.
Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers; seek out their wickedness until you find none.
They are like a lion eager to tear, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
Rise up, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.
You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage in a charmer.
For thus the Lord said to me, “As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey and, when a band of shepherds is called out against it, is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.
See, I am letting snakes loose among you, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you, says the Lord.
For I will be like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.
And among the nations the remnant of Jacob, surrounded by many peoples, shall be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, with no one to deliver.
Look, a people rising up like a lioness and rousing itself like a lion! It does not lie down until it has eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”