Psalms 31:18

American Standard Version (1901)

Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְֽהוָ֗ה אַל־אֵ֭בוֹשָׁה כִּ֣י קְרָאתִ֑יךָ יֵבֹ֥שׁוּ רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים יִדְּמ֥וּ לִשְׁאֽוֹל׃

Transliteration

YHWH not-ʾēbôšâ for qərāʾtîkā; yēbōšû rəšāʿîm yiddəmû to-šəʾôl

Grammar Details

• *ʾēbôšâ*: verb, imperfect/cohortative 1st person singular with negative particle - let me not be put to shame
• *qərāʾtîkā*: verb, perfect 1st person singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - I have called you
• *yēbōšû*: verb, imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will be put to shame
• *rəšāʿîm*: adjective, masculine plural - wicked ones
• *yiddəmû*: verb, imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will be silent
• *šəʾôl*: noun, feminine singular with prefixed preposition lamed - to Sheol

Word Meanings

• *ʾēbôšâ*: be put to shame/be disappointed/be disgraced
• *qərāʾtîkā*: called you/cried out to you/summoned you
• *yēbōšû*: be put to shame/be disgraced/be disappointed
• *rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evildoers/unrighteous
• *yiddəmû*: be silent/be still/be cut off
• *šəʾôl*: Sheol/grave/pit

Referenced Verses

• Ps 94:4 : 4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
• Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
• 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.
• 2 Chr 32:16 : 16 And his servants spake yet more against Jehovah God, and against his servant Hezekiah.
• Ps 12:3 : 3 Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;
• Ps 59:12 : 12 [ For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.
• Ps 63:11 : 11 But the king shall rejoice in God: Every one that sweareth by him shall glory; For the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
• Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words, 4 That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
• Ps 120:2 : 2 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue.
• Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled With the scoffing of those that are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.
• Ps 140:9-9 : 9 As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them. 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise. 11 An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
• Prov 12:19 : 19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a lying tongue is but for a moment.
• Isa 37:22-24 : 22 this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 23 Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;
• Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness which is of me, saith Jehovah.
• Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household!
• Matt 12:24 : 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man doth not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons.
• John 8:44 : 44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
• John 8:48 : 48 The Jews answered and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?
• Acts 25:7 : 7 And when he was come, the Jews that had come down from Jerusalem stood round about him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove;