Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.
Psalm 57:4 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional I lie down among lions that greedily devour human prey; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My soul is among lions: And I lie even among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My life is among lions; I must lie among those who are aflame–the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords. American Standard Version (1901) My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword. Common English Bible My life is in the middle of a pack of lions. I lie down among those who devour humans. Their teeth are spears and arrows; their tongues are sharpened swords. Catholic Public Domain Version Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things. |
Who can open the doors of its face? There is terror all around its teeth.
they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.
How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!
O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling.
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
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.
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Like a war club, a sword, or a sharp arrow is one who bears false witness against a neighbor.
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
There are those whose teeth are swords, whose teeth are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mortals.
And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell.
From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron; he will tread the wine press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the lords of Shechem, and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the lords of Shechem, and from Beth-millo, and devour Abimelech.”