The lips of my assailants and their talk Are against me all day long.
Parallel translations
- WEB The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all day long.
- KJV The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
- BSB the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
- NKJV The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.
- NLT My enemies whisper and mutter as they plot against me all day long.
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Quick answer
The whispered words and plots of his adversaries continue against him all day long.
Overview
The poet describes the constant murmuring and scheming of those who rose against him. Their hostility is unrelenting, pursuing him without pause. Yet by laying it before God who hears all, he places his continual trials into the hands of the One who judges rightly (Ps. 38:12).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ezek 36:3therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
- Ps 59:12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
- Ps 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
- Ps 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
- Jer 18:18Then they said, “Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
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The weeping over a ruined city and the steadfast mercies that are new every morning point to the man of sorrows who wept over Jerusalem and whose mercy rises new from the grave.
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