Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue.
New American Standard Bible
They have spoken
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
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.
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!
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 109:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against An Enemy
1 O God of my praise, do not keep silent, 2 for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue. 3 They also surround me with words of hate, and fight me without cause.
Cross References
Psalm 52:4
You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,
2 Samuel 15:3-8
Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your case [is] good and right, but for you there is no hearing with the king."
2 Samuel 17:1
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue after David {tonight}.
Psalm 31:13
For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.
Psalm 31:18
Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against [the] righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.
Psalm 64:3-4
who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend [their bow to shoot] their arrows--bitter words,
Psalm 120:2-3
"Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."
Psalm 140:3
They sharpen their tongue as [sharp as] a snake's; [the] venom 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
A lip of truth endures forever, but a tongue of deception lasts only a moment.
Proverbs 15:28
A heart of righteousness will ponder the answer, but a mouth of wickedness will pour out deceit.
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.
Jeremiah 9:5
And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak [the] truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired [from] going astray.
Matthew 26:59-62
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order that they could put him to death.
Acts 6:13
And they put forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law!