Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Let false lips be made dumb, - which are speaking - against a righteous one - arrogantly, 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.
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.
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.
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 O Yahweh! let me not be ashamed, For I have called upon thee, Let the lawless ha ashamed, go down in silence to hades! 18 Let false lips be made dumb, - which are speaking - against a righteous one - arrogantly, with pride and contempt. 19 How great is thy goodness, which thou hast hidden away for them who revere thee, - Thou hast wrought for them who seek refuge in thee, in sight of the sons of men.
Cross References
Psalm 94:4
They pour forth words , they speak arrogantly, All the workers of iniquity, do boast:
Jude 1:15
To execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly - of all their works of ungodliness, which they committed in ungodliness, and of all the hard things which they have spoken against him - sinners, ungodly!
1 Samuel 2:3
Do not multiply words, so loftily - loftily, Nor let arrogance proceed from your mouth, - For, a GOD of knowledge, is Yahweh, And, for himself, are great doings made firm.
2 Chronicles 32:16
And, yet more, spake his servants, against Yahweh, God, - and against Hezekiah his servant.
Psalm 12:3
May Yahweh cut off All the lips that utter smooth things, - the tongue that speaketh swelling words;
Psalm 59:12
The sin of their mouth, The word of their lips, Let them then be captured in their pride, Both for the oath and for the deception they record.
Psalm 63:11
But, the king, shall rejoice in God, - Every one shall glory who sweareth by him, For the mouth of them who speak falsehood, shall be stopped.
Psalm 64:3-4
Who have sharpened, like a sword, their tongue, Have made ready their arrow - a bitter word;
Psalm 123:3-4
Show us favour, O Yahweh, show us favour, for, exceedingly, are we sated with contempt:
Psalm 140:9-11
As for the head of them who surround me, Let the mischief of their lips cover them:
Proverbs 12:19
A lip that is faithful, shall be firm to futurity, but, only for a twinkling, is the tongue that is false.
Isaiah 37:22-24
this, is the word which Yahweh hath spoken concerning him, - The virgin daughter of Zion, laugheth thee to scorn - mocketh thee, The daughter of Jerusalem after thee doth wag her head,
Isaiah 54:17
No instrument formed against thee, shall prosper, And every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment, shalt thou prove to be lawless, - This is the inheritance of the servants of Yahweh. And, their righteousness, is from me, Declareth Yahweh.
Matthew 10:25
Sufficient for the disciple, that he become, as his teacher, and, the servant, as, his lord. If, the master of the house, Beelzebul, they called, how much more, the men of his house!
Matthew 12:24
But, the Pharisees, hearing it, said, This one, doth not cast out the demons, save in Beelzebul ruler of the demons.
John 8:44
Ye, are, of your father - the adversary, and, the covetings of your father, ye choose to be doing. He, was, a murderer, from the beginning, and, in the truth, he stood not; because truth is not in him: Whensoever he speaketh falsehood, of his own, he speaketh; because, false, he is, and, the father of it.
John 8:48
The Jews answered, and said unto him - Do, we, not, well, say: Thou, art, a Samaritan, and hast a demon?
Acts 25:7
And, when he presented himself, the Jews who, from Jerusalem, had come down, stood round about him, many and grievous charges, bringing against him , which they were not able to prove, -
Revelation 21:8
But, as for the timid, and disbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part, is in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, - which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside, are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the unchaste, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one loving and doing falsehood.