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A Conservative Version
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they {deceive (LXX/NT)}.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Holman Bible
destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.
International Standard Version
But as for the wicked, they do not speak truth at all. Inside them there is only wickedness. Their throat is an open grave, on their tongue is deceitful flattery.
American Standard Version
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
Amplified
For there is nothing trustworthy or reliable or truthful in what they say;
Their heart is destruction [just a treacherous chasm, a yawning gulf of lies].
Their throat is an open grave;
They [glibly] flatter with their [silken] tongue.
Bible in Basic English
For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.
Darby Translation
For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Julia Smith Translation
Not steadfast in his mouth; the midst of them mischiefs; their throat a grave opened; they will be smooth with their tongue,
King James 2000
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.
Modern King James verseion
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For there is no faithfulness in their mouths; they dissemble in their hearts. Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
NET Bible
For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.
New Heart English Bible
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongue they are deceitful.
The Emphasized Bible
For in his mouth is nothing worthy of trust, Their inward purpose, is engulphing ruin, - An opened sepulchre, is their throat, With their tongue, speak they smooth things.
Webster
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
World English Bible
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Youngs Literal Translation
For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.
Themes
Evil » Speech evil speaking » General references to
Faithfulness » The wicked devoid of
Flattery » The wicked use, to » Others
Sincerity » The wicked devoid of
Sincerity » Evil people are devoid of
Speaking, evil » General references to
Speech » Evil, general references to
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 5:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Refuge Of The Righteous
8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of my enemies. Make thy way straight before my face. 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they {deceive (LXX/NT)}. 10 Hold them guilty, O God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions. For they have rebelled against thee.
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Names
Cross References
Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,
Psalm 62:4
They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Luke 11:44
Woe to you scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye are like the unseen sepulchers, and the men who walk over them do not know.
Job 32:21-22
Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person. Neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
Psalm 12:2-3
They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.
Psalm 36:1-4
The transgression of the wicked man says within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Psalm 51:6
Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou will make me to know wisdom.
Psalm 58:2-3
No! In heart ye work wickedness. Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
Psalm 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.
Psalm 64:6
They search out iniquities, [saying,] We have accomplished a diligent search. And the inward part of man and the heart [are] deep.
Psalm 111:1-3
Praise ye LORD. I will give thanks to LORD with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
Jeremiah 9:3-6
And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
Micah 6:12
For the rich men of it are full of violence, and the inhabitants of it have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Mark 7:21-22
For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
Luke 11:39
And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness.
Romans 1:29-31
having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)