KJV King James Version
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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Psalm 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
O God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; O LORD, tear out the fangs of the lions.
WEB World English Bible
Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 58
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters [which] run continually: [when] he bendeth [his bow to shoot] his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
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Psalm 3:7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.Hosea 5:14For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue [him].Micah 5:8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.Psalm 10:15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.Job 29:17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.Job 4:10-11The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.Psalm 17:12Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.Numbers 23:24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat [of] the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.Ezekiel 30:21-26Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.Isaiah 31:4For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.Psalm 91:13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
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