He deprives the heads of the people of earth of understanding, and causes them to wander in a pathless wasteland.
Psalm 59:12 - Tree of Life Version Do not slay them, lest my people forget. With Your power shake them and bring them down, O Lord our shield. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: And for cursing and lying which they speak. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them even be trapped and taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they utter. American Standard Version (1901) For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak. Common English Bible For the sin of their mouths, the words that they speak, let them be captured in their pride. For the curses and lies they repeat, Catholic Public Domain Version Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go out with our armies? |
He deprives the heads of the people of earth of understanding, and causes them to wander in a pathless wasteland.
In pride the wicked hotly hunts the poor. Let them be caught in the plots they have planned.
His mouth is full of cursing, lies and oppression. On his tongue are trouble and iniquity.
Pay back into the midst of our neighbors sevenfold their reproach— the reproach they hurled at You, my Lord.
The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are trapped by their desire.
An evil one is ensnared by the sin of lips, but the righteous one escapes trouble.
if you are trapped by your own words, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
The lips of my assailants and their whispering are against me all day long.
But I will let a few of them escape the sword, the famine and the pestilence, so they may tell about all their detestable practices among the nations where they go. And they will know that I am Adonai.”
Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
On that day you will not be ashamed because of all your deeds by which you rebelled against Me. For then I will remove from your midst your proud, arrogant ones, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain.
All the people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
“Sir,” they said, “we remember how that deceiver said while He was still alive, ‘After three days I’m to be raised.’
But they kept insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, starting from the Galilee to as far as here.”