Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see 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 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;

Destroy, O Lord,[ and] divide their tongues: for I have seen 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 well pours out its water, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and destruction resound in her; her sickness and wounds are ever before me.

Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them,“ Why didn’t you bring him in?”“ No one ever spoke the way this man does,” the guards replied.“ You mean he has deceived you also?” the Pharisees retorted.“ Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?No! But this mob that knows nothing of the law— there is a curse on them.”Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who was one of their own number, asked,“ Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”They replied,“ Are you from Galilee, too? Look into it, and you will find that a prophet does not come out of Galilee.”Then they all went home,

Now David had been told,“ Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David prayed,“ Lord, turn Ahithophel’s counsel into foolishness.”

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.That is why it was called Babel— because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

“ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Ahithophel said to Absalom,“ I would choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.I would attack him while he is weary and weak. I would strike him with terror, and then all the people with him will flee. I would strike down only the kingand bring all the people back to you. The death of the man you seek will mean the return of all; all the people will be unharmed.”This plan seemed good to Absalom and to all the elders of Israel.But Absalom said,“ Summon also Hushai the Arkite, so we can hear what he has to say as well.”When Hushai came to him, Absalom said,“ Ahithophel has given this advice. Should we do what he says? If not, give us your opinion.”Hushai replied to Absalom,“ The advice Ahithophel has given is not good this time.You know your father and his men; they are fighters, and as fierce as a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Besides, your father is an experienced fighter; he will not spend the night with the troops.Even now, he is hidden in a cave or some other place. If he should attack your troops first, whoever hears about it will say,‘ There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’Then even the bravest soldier, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a fighter and that those with him are brave.“ So I advise you: Let all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba— as numerous as the sand on the seashore— be gathered to you, with you yourself leading them into battle.Then we will attack him wherever he may be found, and we will fall on him as dew settles on the ground. Neither he nor any of his men will be left alive.If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not so much as a pebble is left.”Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than that of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had determined to frustrate the good advice of Ahithophel in order to bring disaster on Absalom.

And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible: They commit adultery and live a lie. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that not one of them turns from their wickedness. They are all like Sodom to me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”

Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin,“ My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.”When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.( The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.)There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees stood up and argued vigorously.“ We find nothing wrong with this man,” they said.“ What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them. He ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force and bring him into the barracks.