Psalms 5:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before me.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For there is no faithfulness{H3559} in their mouth;{H6310} Their inward{H7130} part is very wickedness;{H1942} Their throat{H1627} is an open{H6605} sepulchre;{H6913} They flatter{H2505} with their tongue.{H3956}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For there is no faithfulness{H3559}{(H8737)} in their mouth{H6310}; their inward{H7130} part is very wickedness{H1942}; their throat{H1627} is an open{H6605}{(H8803)} sepulchre{H6913}; they flatter{H2505}{(H8686)} with their tongue{H3956}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    their throte is an open sepulchre: with their tonges they disceaue.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For no trueth is in their mouth, their inwarde partes are very wickednesse: their throte is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part [is] very wickedness; their throat [is] an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 3:13 : 13 'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'
  • Ps 62:4 : 4 They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part you shall make me know wisdom.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Jer 9:3-6 : 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. 4 Take heed every one of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. 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. 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
  • Ps 58:2-3 : 2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, nor let me give flattering titles to man. 22 For I do not know how to give flattering titles; if I did, my maker would soon take me away.
  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:
  • Ps 36:1-4 : 1 The transgression of the wicked speaks within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful. 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good. 4 He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not abhor evil.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 64:6 : 6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search; the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
  • Ps 111:1-3 : 1 Praise the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation. 2 The works of the LORD are great, sought out by all who have pleasure in them. 3 His work is honorable and glorious, and his righteousness endures forever.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
  • Luke 11:39 : 39 And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness.
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection, unmerciful:
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness; God is witness:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:13-15
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    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.'

    15 'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

  • Ps 10:7
    80%

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

  • Jer 9:3-6
    4 verses
    80%

    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.

    4 Take heed every one of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

    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.

    6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • Ps 12:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

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

    3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

  • Ps 5:10
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    10 Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Jer 9:8
    79%

    8 Their 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.

  • Ps 109:2
    78%

    2 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.

  • Ps 59:12
    78%

    12 For 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 78:36
    77%

    36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

  • Ps 140:3
    77%

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

  • Ps 73:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily.

    9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Ps 50:19
    76%

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

  • Prov 26:28
    76%

    28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Ps 59:7
    75%

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

  • Job 15:5
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    5 For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

  • Ps 144:8
    75%

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

  • Prov 24:2
    75%

    2 For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Mic 6:12
    75%

    12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Ps 36:3
    74%

    3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    74%

    3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

    4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • Ps 52:2
    74%

    2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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    7 For my mouth will speak truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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    6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

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

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    4 They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

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    4 You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

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    3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

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    4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

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    73%

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

  • Prov 26:24-26
    3 verses
    73%

    24 He who hates others disguises it with his lips, and stores up deceit within him;

    25 When he speaks kindly, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

    26 Though his hatred is concealed by deceit, his wickedness shall be exposed before the assembly.

  • Ps 17:10
    73%

    10 They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Job 20:12
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    12 Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,

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

  • Prov 17:4
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    4 A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31 The mouth of the just brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue shall be cut out.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who deal truthfully are His delight.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3 Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Ps 58:4
    72%

    4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops her ear;