Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
Parallel translations
- KJV Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
- BSB See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
- NKJV Indeed, they belch with their mouth; Swords are in their lips; For they say, “Who hears?”
- NASB Behold, they gush forth with their mouths; Swords are in their lips, For, they say, “Who hears?”
- NLT Listen to the filth that comes from their mouths; their words cut like swords. “After all, who can hear us?” they sneer.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
- Ps 10:11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
- Prov 15:2The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
- Ps 73:11They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
- Ps 10:13Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
- Ps 64:3–5who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
- Ps 94:7–9They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
- Ps 55:21His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
- Prov 15:28The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
- Prov 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
- Matt 12:34You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Jer 33:24“Don’t consider what this people has spoken, saying, ‘The two families which Yahweh chose, he has cast them off?’ Thus they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.”
- Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
- Ps 109:2–3for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
- Job 22:12–13“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
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