Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

King James Version

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Holman Bible

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me;
they speak against me with lying tongues.

International Standard Version

for the mouths of wicked and deceitful people are opened against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

A Conservative Version

for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

American Standard Version

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

Amplified


For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Bible in Basic English

For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

Darby Translation

For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,

Julia Smith Translation

For the mouth of the unjust, and the mouth of deceit opened against me; they eke with me the tongue of false-hood.

King James 2000

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue.

Modern King James verseion

for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

for the mouth of the ungodly, yea and the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me, and speak against me with false tongues.

NET Bible

For they say cruel and deceptive things to me; they lie to me.

New Heart English Bible

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

The Emphasized Bible

For, the mouth of the lawless one and the mouth of the deceiver, against me, are open, They have spoken to me with false tongue;

Webster

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

World English Bible

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Youngs Literal Translation

For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer Against An Enemy

1 For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
O God of my praise,
Do not be silent!
2 For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without cause.


Cross References

Psalm 52:4

You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

2 Samuel 15:3-8

Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but no man listens to you on the part of the king.”

2 Samuel 17:1

Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.

Psalm 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak arrogantly against the righteous
With pride and contempt.

Psalm 64:3-4

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

Psalm 120:2-3

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
From a deceitful tongue.

Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues as a serpent;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

Proverbs 6:17

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is only for a moment.

Proverbs 15:28

The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer,
But the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

Jeremiah 9:3

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

“Everyone deceives his neighbor
And does not speak the truth,
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They weary themselves committing iniquity.

Matthew 26:59-62

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.

Acts 6:13

They put forward false witnesses who said, “This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law;

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