Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

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?

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?

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 return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city. 7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?" 8 But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations.


Cross References

Psalm 57:4

My 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.

Psalm 10:11

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

Proverbs 15:2

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Psalm 73:11

They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Job 22:12-13

"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

Psalm 10:13

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 64:3-5

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

Psalm 94:4

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

Psalm 94:7-9

They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."

Psalm 109:2-3

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Proverbs 15:28

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

Jeremiah 33:24

Don't consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

Matthew 12:34

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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