Psalms 55:9

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Psalms 55:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah

8 I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”

9 O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.

10 Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.

11 Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.

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Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 11:8

So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Genesis 11:9

That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

2 Samuel 15:31

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

2 Samuel 17:1

Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

2 Samuel 17:2

I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king

2 Samuel 17:3

and bring all the people back to you as a bride returning to her husband. You seek the life of only one man; then all the people will be at peace.”

2 Samuel 17:4

This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

2 Samuel 17:5

Then Absalom said, “Summon Hushai the Archite as well, and let us hear what he too has to say.”

2 Samuel 17:6

So Hushai came to Absalom, who told him, “Ahithophel has spoken this proposal. Should we carry it out? If not, what do you say?”

2 Samuel 17:7

Hushai replied, “This time the advice of Ahithophel is not sound.”

2 Samuel 17:8

He continued, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Moreover, your father is a man of war who will not spend the night with the troops.

2 Samuel 17:9

Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’

2 Samuel 17:10

Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.

2 Samuel 17:11

Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.

2 Samuel 17:12

Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.

2 Samuel 17:13

If he retreats to a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a pebble can be found.”

2 Samuel 17:14

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.

John 7:45

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him in?”

John 7:46

“Never has anyone spoken like this man!” the officers answered.

John 7:47

“Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.

John 7:48

“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

John 7:49

But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”

John 7:50

Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,

John 7:51

“Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to determine what he has done?”

John 7:52

“Aren’t you also from Galilee?” they replied. “Look into it, and you will see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.”

John 7:53

Then each went to his own home.

Acts 23:6

Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

Acts 23:7

As soon as he had said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

Acts 23:8

For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection, nor angels, nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

Acts 23:9

A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

Acts 23:10

The dispute grew so violent that the commander was afraid they would tear Paul to pieces. He ordered the soldiers to go down and remove him by force and bring him into the barracks.

Jeremiah 6:7

As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

Jeremiah 23:14

And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”

Matthew 23:37

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Matthew 23:38

Look, your house is left to you desolate.