Psalms 109:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Ps 52:4 : 4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words. 4 That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not.
  • Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Prov 12:19 : 19 The lip of truth will be established forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
  • Prov 15:28 : 28 The heart of the righteous studies how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
  • Matt 26:59-62 : 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false testimony against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: yes, though many false witnesses came, yet they found none. At last came two false witnesses, 61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. 62 And the high priest arose, and said to him, Do you answer nothing? What is it which these testify against you?
  • Acts 6:13 : 13 They set up false witnesses who said, This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law.
  • 2 Sam 15:3-8 : 3 And Absalom said to him, See, your matters are good and right; but there is no man appointed by the king to hear you. 4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would grant him justice! 5 And it was so, that when any man came near to him to do obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him. 6 And Absalom did this to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 7 And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said to the king, I pray you, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron. 8 For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall truly bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.
  • 2 Sam 17:1 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight:
  • Ps 31:13 : 13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take my life.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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  • Ps 109:3-5
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    3They surrounded me with words of hatred and fought against me without cause.

    4In return for my love they are my adversaries, but I give myself to prayer.

    5They have repaid me evil for good and hatred for my love.

  • Job 16:10-11
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    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

    11God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 109:1
    77%

    1Do not remain silent, O God of my praise;

  • Ps 120:2-3
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    2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

    3What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?

  • Ps 140:9
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    9As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • Ps 35:19-21
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    19Let not my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

    20For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

    21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

  • Ps 38:12
    76%

    12Those who seek my life lay snares for me, and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all day long.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Lam 3:62
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    62The lips of those who rose up against me, and their plot against me all day long.

  • Ps 55:3
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    3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • Ps 71:10
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    10For my enemies speak against me; and those who lie in wait for my soul take counsel together,

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Ps 17:9
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    9From the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

  • Ps 139:20
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    20For they speak against You wickedly; Your enemies take Your name in vain.

  • Ps 22:13
    75%

    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

  • Ps 50:19
    75%

    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Ps 109:20
    75%

    20Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of those who speak evil against my soul.

  • Ps 31:18
    75%

    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • Lam 3:46
    75%

    46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • Ps 41:7
    75%

    7All who hate me whisper together against me; they devise my harm against me.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    74%

    13'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked plot against the just and gnash at him with their teeth.

  • Ps 141:3
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    3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

  • Ps 31:13
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    13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take my life.

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    8Their tongue is like an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

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    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Job 33:2
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    2Behold, now I have opened my mouth; my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, look, they lie in wait for my life; the mighty are gathered against me, not for my transgression nor for my sin, O LORD.

  • Job 27:4
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    4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

  • Ps 102:8
    73%

    8My enemies reproach me all day long; those who are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • Ps 144:8
    73%

    8Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • Ps 56:5
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    5Every day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

  • Ps 35:11
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    11False witnesses did rise up; they charged me with things that I knew not.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

  • Ps 35:7
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    7For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my soul.

  • Ps 59:7
    73%

    7Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright will deliver them.

  • Ps 35:16
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    16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.