Parallel Verses
Webster
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?
Darby Translation
Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear?
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?
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 at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go 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, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
Cross References
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 10:11
He hath said 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 fools poureth out foolishness.
Psalm 73:11
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?
Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Job 22:12-13
Is not God in the hight of heaven? and behold the hight of the stars, how high they are!
Psalm 10:13
Why doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Psalm 55:21
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
Psalm 64:3-5
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Psalm 94:4
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Psalm 94:7-9
Yet they say, The LORD will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard it.
Psalm 109:2-3
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
Jeremiah 33:24
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.