"Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city."
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Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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.
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
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.
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!
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
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.
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.
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
Swallow [them] up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
\55:8\I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.
Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, 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.