Psa 55:9
Destroy, O Lord, {and} divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
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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.
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.
Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
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!
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}
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.
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause {me} to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence {are} before me: and there are {that} raise up strife and contention.
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: {he is} my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Shall they escape by iniquity? in {thine} anger cast down the people, O God.
And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
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.
In whose hands {is} mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. {full...: Heb. filled with}
And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for {he that is} higher than the highest regardeth; and {there be} higher than they. {at the... Heb. at the will, or, purpose}
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.