Psalms 55:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Psalms 55:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …
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? …
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. …
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-15)

David here complains of his enemies, whose wicked plots had brought him, though not to his faith’s end, yet to his wits’ end, and prays against them by the spirit of prophecy. Observe here, I. The character he gives of the enemies he feared. They were of the worst sort of men, and his description of them agrees very well with Absalom and his accomplices. 1. He complains of the city of Jerusalem, w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Destroy--literally, “swallow” (Psa 21:9). divide their tongues--or, “confound their speech,” and hence their counsels (Ge 11:7). the city--perhaps Jerusalem, the scene of anarchy.