Psalms 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 55 connects to 10 cross-references. A lament of David crying out against a city full of violence and strife, intensely personal because the enemy is a close companion who had walked with him in fellowship to the house of God. David wishes he could fly …
Other Translations
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
Cross References
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they …
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; …
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of …
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, …
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: …
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel …
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after …
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, …
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.