Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue."
New American Standard Bible
From a
King James Version
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Holman Bible
and a deceitful tongue.”
International Standard Version
"LORD, deliver me from lips that lie and tongues that deceive."
A Conservative Version
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
American Standard Version
Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.
Amplified
Rescue my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
And from a deceitful tongue.
Darby Translation
Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.
Julia Smith Translation
O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit.
King James 2000
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Modern King James verseion
Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue!
NET Bible
I said, "O Lord, rescue me from those who lie with their lips and those who deceive with their tongue.
New Heart English Bible
Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Webster
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
World English Bible
Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Youngs Literal Translation
O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
Word Count of 18 Translations in Psalm 120:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry For Truth And Peace
1 In my distress I called to Yahweh, and he answered me. 2 "Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue." 3 What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, deceitful tongue?
Names
Cross References
Psalm 35:11
Violent witnesses rise up; they ask me [concerning] what I do not know.
Psalm 52:2-4
Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalm 109:1-2
O God of my praise, do not keep silent,
Psalm 140:1-3
Rescue me, O Yahweh, from evil men. Preserve me from violent men,
Proverbs 12:22
An abomination of Yahweh are lips of deceit, but they who act faithfully [are] his delight.
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.