Psalm 59:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Behold, they belch out with their mouth: Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Behold, they belch out [insults] with their mouths; swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips, for who, they think, hears us?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear?

Common English Bible

⁷ See what they belch out with their mouths: swords are between their lips! Who can listen to them?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Save me with your right hand, and hear me.

Psalm 59:7 Cross References

Psalm 57:4

I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Psalm 10:11

They think in their heart, “God has forgotten; he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”

Psalm 73:11

And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Proverbs 15:28

The mind of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil.

Proverbs 12:18

Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Psalm 55:21

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Psalm 10:13

Why do the wicked renounce God and say in their hearts, “You will not call us to account”?

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Jeremiah 33:24

Have you not observed how these people say, “The two families that the Lord chose have been rejected by him,” and how they hold my people in such contempt that they no longer regard them as a nation?

Psalm 94:4

They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.

Lamentations 3:62

The whispers and murmurs of my assailants are against me all day long.