With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
Parallel translations
- KJV With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
- BSB With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
- NKJV With my lips I have declared All the judgments of Your mouth.
- NASB With my lips I have told of All the ordinances of Your mouth.
- NLT I have recited aloud all the regulations you have given us.
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- Ps 71:15–18My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
- Ps 40:9–10I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
- Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
- Ps 118:17I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.
- Ps 34:11Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
- Ps 119:172Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
- Matt 12:34You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Ps 119:46I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
- Acts 4:20for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
- Matt 10:27What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
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