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Psalms 55:11

9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
KJV
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
WEB
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
ASV
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
DARBY
Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.
BLB
Disasters [are] within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its streets.
ÅB
Fordervelse er inneni den, og undertrykkelse og svik viker ikke fra dens torv.
OTB
Ødeleggelse er innenfor henne;
Undertrykkelse og svik forlater ikke hennes gater.
B1930
Fordervelse er inneni den, og undertrykkelse og svik viker ikke fra dens torv.

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 59:7

    Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

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  • Psalms 5:9

    For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

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  • Jeremiah 5:26–27

    For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

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  • Psalms 10:7

    His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

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  • Acts 7:51–52

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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  • Matthew 26:4

    And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

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  • Jeremiah 9:3–5

    And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

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  • Psalms 109:2–3

    For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

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