Psalms 55:9 · KJV
“Destroy, O Lord, {and} divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.”
— Psalms 55:9
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm {and} tempest.
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow {are} in the midst of it.
Psalms 55 — Context
Lo, {then} would I wander far off, {and} remain in the wilderness. Selah.
8I would hasten my escape from the windy storm {and} tempest.
9Destroy, O Lord, {and} divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow {are} in the midst of it.
11Wickedness {is} in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
Cross References
Jeremiah 6:7
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually {is} grief and wounds.
Genesis 11:7-9
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
2 Samuel 15:31
And {one} told David, saying, Ahithophel {is} among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
Acts 23:6-10
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men {and} brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
John 7:45-53
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
Matthew 23:37-38
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, {thou} that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under {her} wings, and ye would not!
Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. {an...: or, filthiness}
2 Samuel 17:1-14
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: