Confuse them, Lord, divide their tongues, For I have seen 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 wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.

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;

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 keeps its waters fresh, So she keeps fresh her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard in her; Sickness and wounds are constantly before Me.

The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them,“ Why did you not bring Him?”The officers answered,“ Never has a man spoken in this way!”The Pharisees then replied to them,“ You have not been led astray too, have you?Not one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?But this crowd that does not know the Law is accursed!”Nicodemus( the one who came to Him before, being one of them)* said to them,“ Our Law does not judge the person unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”They answered and said to him,“ You are not from Galilee as well, are you? Examine the Scriptures, and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee.”[[ And everyone went to his home.

Now someone informed David, saying,“ Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said,“ Lord, please make the advice of Ahithophel foolish.”

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they stopped building the city.Therefore it was named Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

“ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were unwilling.Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!

Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom,“ Please let me choose twelve thousand men and let me set out and pursue David tonight.And I will attack him while he is weary and exhausted and startle him, so that all the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike and kill the king when he is alone,and I will bring all the people back to you. The return of everyone depends on the man whom you are seeking; then all the people will be at peace.”And the plan pleased Absalom and all the elders of Israel.Nevertheless, Absalom said,“ Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear what he has to say.”When Hushai had come to Absalom, Absalom said to him,“ Ahithophel has proposed this plan. Should we carry out his plan? If not, say so yourself.”So Hushai said to Absalom,“ This time the advice that Ahithophel has given is not good.”Then Hushai said,“ You yourself know your father and his men, that they are warriors and they are fierce, like a bear deprived of her cubs in the field. And your father is an expert in warfare, and he will not spend the night with the people.Behold, he has now hidden himself in one of the ravines, or in another place; and it will be that when he falls on them at the first attack, whoever hears it will say,‘ There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom!’And even the one who is valiant, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will completely despair; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and those who are with him are valiant men.But I advise that all Israel be fully gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea in abundance; and that you personally go into battle.Then we will come to him in one of the places where he can be found, and we will fall on him just as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him, not even one will be left.And if he withdraws into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it into the valley until not even a pebble is found there.”Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to foil the good advice of Ahithophel, in order for the Lord to bring disaster on Absalom.

Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: The committing of adultery and walking in deceit; And they strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one has turned back from his wickedness. All of them have become to Me like Sodom, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

But Paul, perceiving that one group were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, began crying out in the Council,“ Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!”When he said this, a dissension occurred between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.And a great uproar occurred; and some of the scribes of the Pharisaic party stood up and started arguing heatedly, saying,“ We find nothing wrong with this man; suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”And when a great dissension occurred, the commander was afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, and he ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.