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What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
Psalms 120:3 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
  • BSB What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
  • NKJV What shall be given to you, Or what shall be done to you, You false tongue?
  • NASB What will He give to you, and what more will He do to you, You deceitful tongue?
  • NLT O deceptive tongue, what will God do to you? How will he increase your punishment?

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 3

  • Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
  • Matt 16:26For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Rom 6:21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 120:3 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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