Psalms 109:2

World English Bible (2000)

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

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  • Ps 52:4 : 4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, 4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.
  • Ps 120:2-3 : 2 Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue. 3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
  • Prov 12:19 : 19 Truth's lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
  • Prov 15:28 : 28 The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
  • Matt 26:59-62 : 59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death; 60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward, 61 and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'" 62 The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"
  • Acts 6:13 : 13 and set up false witnesses who said, "This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.
  • 2 Sam 15:3-8 : 3 Absalom said to him, "Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized 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 do him justice!" 5 It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him. 6 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. 7 It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron. 8 For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, 'If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.'"
  • 2 Sam 17:1 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
  • Ps 31:13 : 13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

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

    4In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

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

  • Job 16:10-11
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    10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

    11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 109:1
    77%

    1God of my praise, don't remain silent,

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

    3What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful 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 speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • Ps 35:19-21
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    19Don't let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

    20For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

    21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

  • Ps 38:12
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    12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • Lam 3:62
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    62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

  • Ps 55:3
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    3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

  • Ps 71:10
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    10For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Ps 17:9
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    9from the wicked who oppress me, 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
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    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

  • Ps 109:20
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    20This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

  • Lam 3:46
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    46All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

  • Ps 41:7
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    7All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used 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 plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

  • Ps 141:3
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    3Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

  • Ps 31:13
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    13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • Ps 140:3
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    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

  • Job 27:4
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    4surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

  • Ps 144:8
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    8whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

  • Ps 56:5
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    5All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

  • Ps 35:11
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    11Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

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

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

  • Prov 12:6
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    6The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

  • Ps 35:16
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    16Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.