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Psalm 140:11

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140:11A slanderer19 will not endure on20 the earth;

calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.21

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Footnotes

  1. 19 Heb “a man of a tongue.”
  2. 20 Heb “be established in.”
  3. 21 Heb “for blows.” The Hebrew noun מַדְחֵפֹה (madkhefoh, “blow”) occurs only here in the OT.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Let not the slanderer be established in the land;

let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

May slanderers not be established in the land;

may disaster hunt down the violent.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Do not let a slanderer stay in the land.

Let evil relentlessly hunt down a violent man.

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t let liars prosper here in our land.

Cause great disasters to fall on the violent.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Do not let a slanderer be established in the land;

as for the man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.

KJV 1900King James Version

Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth:

Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.