Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.
New American Standard Bible
Which
With pride and contempt.
King James Version
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Holman Bible
they speak arrogantly against the righteous
with pride and contempt.
International Standard Version
Let the lying lips be made still, especially those who speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt.
American Standard Version
Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Amplified
Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous
With pride and contempt.
Bible in Basic English
Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.
Darby Translation
Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
Julia Smith Translation
The lips of falsehood shall be mute; speaking boldly in pride and contempt.
King James 2000
Let the lying lips be put to silence; who speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against [the] righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.
Modern King James verseion
Let the lying lips be put to silence; the lips which speak proudly against the righteous, with pride and scorn.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.
NET Bible
May lying lips be silenced -- lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!
New Heart English Bible
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
The Emphasized Bible
Let false lips be made dumb, - which are speaking - against a righteous one - arrogantly, with pride and contempt.
Webster
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
World English Bible
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Youngs Literal Translation
Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 31:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Protection
17 Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them be silent in Sheol. 18 Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt. 19 O how great is thy goodness, which thou have laid up for those who fear thee, which thou have wrought for those who take refuge in thee before the sons of men!
Cross References
Psalm 94:4
They prate, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
Jude 1:15
to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the irreverent of them about all the works of their own irreverence that they have done irreverently, and about all the harsh things that irreverent sinners spoke against him.
1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so very proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
2 Chronicles 32:16
And his servants spoke yet more against LORD God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
Psalm 12:3
LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,
Psalm 59:12
[for] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips. Let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Psalm 63:11
But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him shall glory, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.
Psalm 64:3-4
who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Psalm 120:2
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalm 140:9-11
As for the head of those who encompass me around, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Proverbs 12:19
The lips of truth shall be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Isaiah 37:22-24
this is the word which LORD has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised thee and laughed thee to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.
Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper. And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of LORD, and their righteousness which is of me, says LORD.
Matthew 10:25
It is enough for the pupil that he becomes like his teacher, and the bondman like his lord. If they have called the house-ruler Beelzebub, how much more those of his household.
Matthew 12:24
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebub the ruler of the demons.
John 8:44
Ye are from the father, the devil, and ye want to do the desires of your father. He was a man-killer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his
John 8:48
Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say well that thou are a Samaritan, and have a demon?
Acts 25:7
And when he arrived, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around, bringing many and serious accusations against Paul, which they could not prove,
Revelation 21:8
But for the cowards, and unbelieving, and sinful, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every man who loves and makes a lie.