Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Behold, they will gush out with their mouth: swords in their lips: for who heard?

New American Standard Bible

Behold, they belch forth with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips,
For, they say, “Who hears?”

King James Version

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

Holman Bible

Look, they spew from their mouths—
sharp words from their lips.
“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?

Darby Translation

Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear?

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

Verse Info

Context Readings

God Our Stronghold

6 They will turn back at evening: they will make a noise as a dog, and they will surround the city. 7 Behold, they will gush out with their mouth: swords in their lips: for who heard? 8 And thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt deride at all the nations.

Cross References

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 10:11

Saying in his heart, God forgat: he hid his face; not seeing forever.

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise will make knowledge good: and the mouth of the foolish will gush forth folly.

Psalm 73:11

And they said, How did God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?

Proverbs 12:18

There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.

Job 22:12-13

Is not God high in the heavens? and see the head of the stars for they were lifted up.

Psalm 10:13

For what did the unjust one despise God, saying in his heart, Thou wilt not search?

Psalm 55:21

They were divided from the wrath of his mouth, and his heart drew near: his words were soft above oil, and they drawn swords.

Psalm 64:3-5

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:

Psalm 94:4

They will utter, they will speak impudently; all they working iniquity will boast themselves.

Psalm 94:7-9

And they will say Jah will not see, and the God of Jacob will not understand.

Psalm 109:2-3

For the mouth of the unjust, and the mouth of deceit opened against me; they eke with me the tongue of false-hood.

Proverbs 15:28

The heart of the just one shall meditate to answer: and the mouth of the unjust shall gush out evil.

Jeremiah 33:24

Sawest thou not what this people spake, saying, The two families which Jehovah chose in them, and he will reject them? and they will despise my people from being yet a nation before them.

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks.

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