Psalms 31:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

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  • Ps 94:4 : 4 They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
  • Jude 1:15 : 15 to do judgment against all, and to convict all their impious ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge `is' Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.
  • 2 Chr 32:16 : 16 And again have his servants spoken against Jehovah God, and against Hezekiah His servant,
  • Ps 12:3 : 3 Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,
  • Ps 59:12 : 12 The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
  • Ps 63:11 : 11 And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word. 4 To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part `is' in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'
  • Rev 22:15 : 15 and without `are' the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.
  • Ps 120:2 : 2 O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt, 4 Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them. 10 They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not. 11 A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.
  • Prov 12:19 : 19 The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.
  • Isa 37:22-24 : 22 this `is' the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: Trampled on thee, laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion, Behind thee shaken the head hath the daughter of Jerusalem. 23 Whom hast thou reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up the voice? Yea, thou dost lift up on high thine eyes Against the Holy One of Israel. 24 By the hand of thy servants Thou hast reviled the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of hills, The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the high place of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.
  • Isa 54:17 : 17 No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This `is' the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?
  • Matt 12:24 : 24 but the Pharisees having heard, said, `This one doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons.'
  • John 8:44 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
  • John 8:48 : 48 The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?'
  • Acts 25:7 : 7 and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem -- many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,

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  • 17O Jehovah, let me not be ashamed, For I have called Thee, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol.

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    2Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

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    31The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And the tongue of frowardness is cut out.

    32The lips of the righteous know a pleasing thing, And the mouth of the wicked perverseness!

  • 3Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

  • 22An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.

  • 5A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.

  • 13Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

  • 11And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!

  • 2For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

  • 4My lips do not speak perverseness, And my tongue doth not utter deceit.

  • 7For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips `is' wickedness.

  • 10Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

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    18Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

    19In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips `is' wise.

  • 24Turn aside from thee a froward mouth, And perverse lips put far from thee,

  • 3In the mouth of a fool `is' a rod of pride, And the lips of the wise preserve them.

  • 28A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!

  • 4An evil doer is attentive to lips of vanity, Falsehood is giving ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • 3Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

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    19How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,

    20Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

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    2O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

    3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

  • 32If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!

  • 26They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, Who are magnifying themselves against me.

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  • 3The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.

  • 42The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.

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  • 2Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.