Parallel Verses
Amplified
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.
New American Standard Bible
They have spoken
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
they speak against me with lying tongues.
International Standard Version
for the mouths of wicked and deceitful people are opened against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
A Conservative Version
for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
American Standard Version
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
Bible in Basic English
For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.
Darby Translation
For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,
Julia Smith Translation
For the mouth of the unjust, and the mouth of deceit opened against me; they eke with me the tongue of false-hood.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
for {wicked and deceitful mouths} have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue.
Modern King James verseion
for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for the mouth of the ungodly, yea and the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me, and speak against me with false tongues.
NET Bible
For they say cruel and deceptive things to me; they lie to me.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
For, the mouth of the lawless one and the mouth of the deceiver, against me, are open, They have spoken to me with false tongue;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
For 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!
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 109:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against An Enemy
1
Do not keep silent,
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.
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And have fought against me without a cause.
Cross References
Psalm 52:4
You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
2 Samuel 15:3-8
Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man appointed as the king’s agent to listen to you.”
2 Samuel 17:1
Then, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.
Psalm 31:13
For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.
Psalm 31:18
Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous
With pride and contempt.
Psalm 64:3-4
Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,
Psalm 120:2-3
Rescue my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
And from a deceitful tongue.
Psalm 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
Proverbs 6:17
A proud look [the attitude that makes one overestimate oneself and discount others], a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 12:19
Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is [credited] only for a moment.
Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the righteous thinks carefully about how to answer [in a wise and appropriate and timely way],
But the [babbling] mouth of the wicked pours out malevolent things.
Jeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongue like their bow;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:5
“Everyone deceives and mocks his neighbor
And does not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They exhaust themselves with sin and cruelty.
Matthew 26:59-62
Now the chief priests and the whole Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) tried to get false witnesses to testify against Jesus, so that they might [have a reason to] put Him to death.
Acts 6:13
They presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and the Law [of Moses];