Psalm 55:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.

New Living Translation
Confuse them, Lord, and frustrate their plans, for I see violence and conflict in the city.

English Standard Version
Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

Berean Study Bible
O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

New American Standard Bible
Confuse them, Lord, divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

NASB 1995
Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

NASB 1977
Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Amplified Bible
Confuse [my enemies], O Lord, divide their tongues [destroying their schemes], For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Christian Standard Bible
Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city;

Contemporary English Version
Confuse my enemies, Lord! Upset their plans. Cruelty and violence are all I see in the city,

Good News Translation
Confuse the speech of my enemies, O Lord! I see violence and riots in the city,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Completely confuse their language, O Lord, because I see violence and conflict in the city.

International Standard Version
Confound them, Lord, and confuse their speech, because I have seen violence and strife in the city.

NET Bible
Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

New King James Version
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

King James 2000 Bible
Destroy, O Lord, and confuse their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

New Heart English Bible
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

World English Bible
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

American King James Version
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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

A Faithful Version
Destroy, O LORD, and divide their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Darby Bible Translation
Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

English Revised Version
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Webster's Bible Translation
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Destroy their tongues O Lorde, and deuide them: for I haue seene oppression and strife in the citie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Destroie their tonges (o LORDE) and deuyde them, for I se vnrightuousnes & strife in ye cite.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, "" For I saw violence and strife in a city.

Young's Literal Translation
Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

Smith's Literal Translation
Swallow up, O Jehovah, divide their tongue: for I saw violence and strife in the city.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Cast down, O Lord, and divide their tongues; for I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Cast them down, O Lord, and divide their tongues. For I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
LORD JEHOVAH, drown the conversation of their tongues, for I have seen fighting and judgment in the city.

Lamsa Bible
Destroy, O LORD, and render useless their tongues; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen iniquity and gain saying in the city.
















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