for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- BSB For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
- NKJV For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- NASB For they have opened a wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- NLT while the wicked slander me and tell lies about me.
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- Ps 52:4You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
- Ps 120:2–3Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
- Prov 6:17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
- Prov 12:19Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
- Jer 9:5Everyone will deceive their neighbors, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.
- Acts 6:13and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
- 2 Sam 17:1Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
- Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
- Ps 31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
- Matt 26:59–62Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
- Prov 15:28The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
- Jer 9:3“They bend their tongue, as 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 don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 64:3–4who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
- 2 Sam 15:3–8Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”
- Ps 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
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