Psalms 55:9 
Context| NET © | Confuse them, 1 O Lord! Frustrate their plans! 2 For I see violence and conflict in the city. |
| NIV © biblegateway Psa 55:9 | Confuse the wicked, O Lord, confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city. |
| NASB © biblegateway Psa 55:9 | Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city. |
| NLT © biblegateway Psa 55:9 | Destroy them, Lord, and confuse their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city. |
| MSG © biblegateway Psa 55:9 | Come down hard, Lord--slit their tongues. I'm appalled how they've split the city Into rival gangs prowling the alleys |
| BBE © SABDAweb Psa 55:9 | Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town. |
| NRSV © bibleoremusPsa 55:9 | Confuse, O Lord, confound their speech; for I see violence and strife in the city. |
| NKJV © biblegateway Psa 55:9 | Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city. |
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| NASB © biblegateway Psa 55:9 | |
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| NET © [draft] ITL | |
| NET © | Confuse them, 1 O Lord! Frustrate their plans! 2 For I see violence and conflict in the city. |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Traditionally בַּלַּע (bala’) has been taken to mean “swallow” in the sense of “devour” or “destroy” (cf. KJV), but this may be a homonym meaning “confuse” (see BDB 118 s.v. בַּלַּע; HALOT 135 s.v. III *בֶּלַע). “Their tongue” is the understood object of the verb (see the next line). 2 tn Heb “split their tongue,” which apparently means “confuse their speech,” or, more paraphrastically, “frustrate the plans they devise with their tongues.” |
