Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict 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;

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

As a well continually pours out fresh water so it continually pours out wicked deeds. Sounds of violence and destruction echo throughout it. All I see are sick and wounded people.’

Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them,“ Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”The officers replied,“ No one ever spoke like this man!”Then the Pharisees answered,“ You haven’t been deceived too, have you?None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,“ Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”They replied,“ You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”[[And each one departed to his own house.

Now David had been told,“ Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed,“ Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O LORD!”

Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

“ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!Look, your house is left to you desolate!

Ahithophel said to Absalom,“ Let me pick out twelve thousand men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night.When I catch up with him he will be exhausted and worn out. I will rout him, and the entire army that is with him will flee. I will kill only the kingand will bring the entire army back to you. In exchange for the life of the man you are seeking, you will get back everyone. The entire army will return unharmed.”This seemed like a good idea to Absalom and to all the leaders of Israel.But Absalom said,“ Call for Hushai the Arkite, and let’s hear what he has to say.”So Hushai came to Absalom. Absalom said to him,“ Here is what Ahithophel has advised. Should we follow his advice? If not, what would you recommend?”Hushai replied to Absalom,“ Ahithophel’s advice is not sound this time.”Hushai went on to say,“ You know your father and his men– they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, whoever hears about it will say,‘ Absalom’s army has been slaughtered!’If that happens even the bravest soldier– one who is lion-hearted– will virtually melt away. For all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and that those who are with him are brave.My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba– in number like the sand by the sea!– be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.We will come against him wherever he happens to be found. We will descend on him like the dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of the men who are with him will be spared alive– not one of them!If he regroups in a city, all Israel will take up ropes to that city and drag it down to the valley, so that not a single pebble will be left there!”Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said,“ The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel.” Now the LORD had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the LORD could bring disaster on Absalom.

But I see the prophets of Jerusalem doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.

Then when Paul noticed that part of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, he shouted out in the council,“ Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”When he said this, an argument began between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.( For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)There was a great commotion, and some experts in the law from the party of the Pharisees stood up and protested strongly,“ We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.