Psalms 58:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.”
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“O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 58:6 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 23:24Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
- Job 4:10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Job 29:17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
- Job 41:14Who can open his jaws, ringed by his fearsome teeth?
- Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
- Psalms 17:12like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
- Psalms 91:13You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
- Ecclesiastes 10:11If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
- Isaiah 31:4For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey— and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor— so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
- Jeremiah 8:17“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 30:21“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.
- Hosea 5:14For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.
- Micah 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
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