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

主啊，求你吞灭他们，变乱他们的舌头！因为我在城中见了强暴争竞的事。

主啊，求你吞灭他们，变乱他们的言语！因为我在城中见了凶暴争吵的事。

主啊，求你吞灭他们，变乱他们的言语！因为我在城中见了凶暴争吵的事。

主啊，我在城中看见暴力和争斗，求你使他们言语混乱。

主啊！扰乱恶人的计谋，使他们的意见（“意见”原文作“舌头”）分歧，因为我在城中看见了强暴和争竞的事。

主啊，求你使他们混乱，变乱他们的言语！因为我在城中看见残暴和争竞：

主啊，求你吞滅他們，變亂他們的舌頭！因為我在城中見了強暴爭競的事。

主啊，求你吞滅他們，變亂他們的言語！因為我在城中見了兇暴爭吵的事。

主啊，求你吞滅他們，變亂他們的言語！因為我在城中見了兇暴爭吵的事。

主啊，我在城中看見暴力和爭鬥，求你使他們言語混亂。

主啊！擾亂惡人的計謀，使他們的意見（“意見”原文作“舌頭”）分歧，因為我在城中看見了強暴和爭競的事。

主啊，吞滅他們，使他們的口舌分歧吧；因為我見了強暴和爭競的事於城中。

主啊，求你使他們混亂，變亂他們的言語！因為我在城中看見殘暴和爭競：

主歟、我在邑中、見有強暴紛爭、尚其施行翦滅、變亂其舌兮、

敵人在城、強暴相爭、予求上主、翦滅是行、撓亂其謀、使之弗成兮、

我在城中、見有強暴爭鬥之事、求主毀滅之、使其所設之謀、分歧不成、

避此暴風雨。安然居寶塔。

Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.

Lord, confuse the sinners and keep them from understanding one another. I see people destroying things and fighting in the city.

Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

Confuse them, Lord, and frustrate their plans, for I see violence and conflict in the city.

Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city;

Confuse them, Lord, divide their tongues, 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.

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city;

Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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.

Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?The officers answered, Never man spake like this man.Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.Nicodemus saith unto them,( he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)Doth our law judge[ any] man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.And every man went unto his own house.

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.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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!Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:And I will come upon him while he[ is] weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that[ are] with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest[ is] as if all returned:[ so] all the people shall be in peace.And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do[ after] his saying? if not; speak thou.And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given[ is] not good at this time.For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they[ be] mighty men, and they[ be] chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father[ is] a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some[ other] place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.And he also[ that is] valiant, whose heart[ is] as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father[ is] a mighty man, and[ they] which[ be] with him[ are] valiant men.Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that[ is] by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that[ are] with him there shall not be left so much as one.Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite[ is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

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.

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.And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.And there arose a great cry: and the scribes[ that were] of the Pharisees’ part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring[ him] into the castle.