Psalm 55:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Destroy [their schemes], O Lord, confuse their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Common English Bible

⁹ Baffle them, my Lord! Confuse their language because I see violence and conflict in the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ O God, I have announced my life to you. You have placed my tears in your sight, and even in your promise.

Psalm 55:9 Cross References

Jeremiah 6:7

As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her wickedness; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.

Jeremiah 23:14

But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

2 Samuel 15:31

And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”