Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lips talk of mischief.

New American Standard Bible

For their minds devise violence,
And their lips talk of trouble.

King James Version

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Holman Bible

for their hearts plan violence,
and their words stir up trouble.

International Standard Version

because they plan violence, and they are always talking about trouble.

A Conservative Version

For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.

American Standard Version

For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

Amplified


For their minds plot violence,
And their lips talk of trouble [for the innocent].

Bible in Basic English

For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

Darby Translation

for their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Julia Smith Translation

For their heart will meditate destruction, and their lips will speak labor.

King James 2000

For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief.

Modern King James verseion

For their heart studies ruin, and their lips talk of mischief.

NET Bible

for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

New Heart English Bible

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

The Emphasized Bible

For, violence, their heart muttereth, and, mischief, their lips do speak.

Webster

For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

World English Bible

for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

Youngs Literal Translation

For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
הגה 
Hagah 
Usage: 25

שׁוד שׁד 
Shod 
Usage: 25

and their lips
שׂפת שׂפה 
Saphah 
Usage: 176

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Learning From Your Father

1 Be not thou jealous over wicked men, and desire not thou to be among them. 2 For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lips talk of mischief. 3 Through wisdom a house shall be builded, and with understanding it shall be set up.

Cross References

Psalm 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit and fraud; under his tongue is travail and sorrow.

Job 15:35

He conceiveth travail, he beareth mischief, and his body bringeth forth deceit."

1 Samuel 23:9

But David had knowledge that Saul imagined mischief against him, and said therefore to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod."

Esther 3:6-7

and thought it too little to lay hands only on Mordecai: for they had showed him the nation of Mordecai. Wherefore, he sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus and were of the nation of Mordecai.

Psalm 7:14

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness.

Psalm 28:3

O pluck me not away, neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers, which speak friendly to their neighbours, but imagine mischief in their hearts.

Psalm 36:4

He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.

Psalm 64:4-6

That they may privily hurt the innocent, and suddenly hit him without any fear.

Psalm 140:2

which imagine mischief in their hearts, and stir up strife all the day long.

Proverbs 6:14

he is ever imagining mischief and frowardness in his heart, and causeth discord.

Proverbs 24:8

He that imagineth mischief, may well be called an ungracious person.

Isaiah 59:4

No man regardeth righteousness, and no man judgeth truly. Every man hopeth in vain things, and imagineth deceit; conceiveth weariness, and bringeth forth evil.

Micah 7:3

yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.

Matthew 26:3-4

Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people into the palace of the high priest, called Caiaphas:

Luke 23:20-21

Pilate spake again to them, willing to let Jesus loose.

Acts 13:10

"O full of all subtlety and deceitfulness, and child of the devil, and the enemy of all righteousness: thou ceasest not to pervert the straight ways of the Lord.

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