Psalm 59:7
New International Version
See what they spew from their mouths— the words from their lips are sharp as swords, and they think, “Who can hear us?”

New Living Translation
Listen to the filth that comes from their mouths; their words cut like swords. “After all, who can hear us?” they sneer.

English Standard Version
There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

Berean Standard Bible
See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

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

New King James Version
Indeed, they belch with their mouth; Swords are in their lips; For they say, “Who hears?”

New American Standard Bible
Behold, they gush forth with their mouths; Swords are in their lips, For, they say, “Who hears?”

NASB 1995
Behold, they belch forth with their mouth; Swords are in their lips, For, they say, “Who hears?”

NASB 1977
Behold, they belch forth with their mouth; Swords are in their lips, For, they say, “Who hears?”

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, they pour forth speech with their mouth; Swords are in their lips, For, they say, “Who hears?”

Amplified Bible
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?”

Christian Standard Bible
Look, they spew from their mouths — sharp words from their lips. “For who,” they say, “will hear? ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Look, they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips.” For who,” they say, “will hear?”

American Standard Version
Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The speech of their mouths is a sword in their lips and they say, "Who hears?"

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard?

Contemporary English Version
They curse, and their words cut like swords, as they say to themselves, "No one can hear us!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us ?

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
See what pours out of their mouths- swords from their lips! [They think,] "Who will hear us?"

Good News Translation
Listen to their insults and threats. Their tongues are like swords in their mouths, yet they think that no one hears them.

International Standard Version
Look what pours out of their mouths! They use their lips like swords, saying "Who will hear us?"

JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: 'For who doth hear?'

Literal Standard Version
Behold, they belch out with their mouths, | Swords [are] in their lips, for “Who hears?”

Majority Standard Bible
See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

New American Bible
Their mouths pour out insult; sharp words are on their lips. They say: “Who is there to hear?”

NET Bible
Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say, "Who hears?"

New Revised Standard Version
There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”

New Heart English Bible
Look, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

Webster's Bible Translation
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?”

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for 'Who heareth?'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Deliver Me From My Enemies
6They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city. 7See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?” 8But You, O LORD, laugh at them; You scoff at all the nations.…

Cross References
2 Kings 18:35
Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?"

Job 22:13
Yet you say: 'What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

Psalm 10:11
He says to himself, "God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees."

Psalm 22:16
For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalm 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalm 55:21
His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

Psalm 57:4
My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts--with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.


Treasury of Scripture

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

belch

Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

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.

swords

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 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 64:3-5
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: …

who

Psalm 10:11,13
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it

Psalm 73:11
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Psalm 94:7-9
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it

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Psalm 59
1. David prays to be delivered from his enemies
6. He complains of their cruelty
8. He trusts in god
11. He prays against them
16. He praises God














(7) Behold.--Without question this word should, as Mr. Burgess suggests, be emended to "spears" (chanith instead of hinneh), to give--

"Spears they pour out with their mouths,

Swords with their lips."

(Comp. Psalm 57:5, and

"She speaks poniards."--As You Like It.

Verse 7. - Behold, they belch out with their mouth. All night long they keep uttering abuse and execrations and threats (comp. Psalm 94:4). Swords are in their lips (comp. Psalm 57:4). Speeches that wound and cut to the heart. For who, say they, doth hear! (comp. Psalm 10:11-13; Psalm 64:5; Psalm 73:11; Psalm 94:7). They think themselves irresponsible for their words. No one will hear or know what they say.

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Hebrew
See what
הִנֵּ֤ה ׀ (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

they spew
יַבִּ֘יע֤וּן (yab·bî·‘ūn)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 5042: To gush forth, to utter, to emit

from their mouths—
בְּפִיהֶ֗ם (bə·p̄î·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

sharp words
חֲ֭רָבוֹת (ḥă·rā·ḇō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

from their lips:
בְּשִׂפְתוֹתֵיהֶ֑ם (bə·śip̄·ṯō·w·ṯê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin

“For
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

who
מִ֥י (mî)
Interrogative
Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

can hear us?”
שֹׁמֵֽעַ׃ (šō·mê·a‘)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently


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