Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.
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.
A Conservative Version
Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, 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.
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 shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld. 18 Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride. 19 O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!
Cross References
Psalm 94:4
Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.
Jude 1:15
To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.
1 Samuel 2:3
Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
2 Chronicles 32:16
And his servants said even more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.
Psalm 12:3
The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.
Psalm 59:12
Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,
Psalm 64:3-4
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
Psalm 140:9-11
As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.
Proverbs 12:19
True lips are certain for ever, but a false tongue is only for a minute.
Isaiah 37:22-24
This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
Isaiah 54:17
No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.
Matthew 10:25
It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!
Matthew 12:24
But the Pharisees, hearing of it, said, This man only sends evil spirits out of men by Beelzebub, the ruler of evil spirits.
John 8:44
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
John 8:48
The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?
Acts 25:7
And when he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem came round him, and made all sorts of serious statements against him, which were not supported by the facts.
Revelation 21:8
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.