Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear?
New American Standard Bible
For, they say, “
King James Version
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Holman Bible
sharp words from
“For who,” they say, “will hear?”
International Standard Version
Look what pours out of their mouths! They use their lips like swords, saying "Who will hear us?"
A Conservative Version
Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for [they say], Who hears?
American Standard Version
Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who,'say they , doth hear?
Amplified
Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”
Bible in Basic English
See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, they will gush out with their mouth: swords in their lips: for who heard?
King James 2000
Behold, they bellow out with their mouths: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, they pour out [talk] with their mouth. Swords [are] on their lips, for [they say], "Who hears?"
Modern King James verseion
Behold, they bellow out with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, they speak against me with their mouth, and swords are under their lips, for who reproveth them?
NET Bible
Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say, "Who hears?"
New Heart English Bible
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! they belch forth with their mouth, Swords, are in their lips, For say they , Who doth hear?
Webster
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
World English Bible
Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for 'Who heareth?'
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 59:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Our Stronghold
6 They return in the evening; they howl like a dog, and go round about the city: 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear? 8 But thou, Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt have all the nations in derision.
Cross References
Psalm 57:4
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 10:11
He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see it.
Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright; but the mouth of the foolish poureth out folly.
Psalm 73:11
And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?
Proverbs 12:18
There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
Job 22:12-13
Is not +God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!
Psalm 10:13
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Psalm 55:21
Smooth were the milky words of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.
Psalm 64:3-5
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
Psalm 94:4
How long shall they utter and speak insolence all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Psalm 94:7-9
And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard it.
Psalm 109:2-3
For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,
Proverbs 15:28
The heart of a righteous man studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
Jeremiah 33:24
Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Matthew 12:34
Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.