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Amplified
For there is nothing trustworthy or reliable or truthful in what they say;
Their heart is destruction [just a treacherous chasm, a yawning gulf of lies].
Their throat is an open grave;
They [glibly] flatter with their [silken] tongue.
New American Standard Bible
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King James 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.
Holman Bible
destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.
International Standard Version
But as for the wicked, they do not speak truth at all. Inside them there is only wickedness. Their throat is an open grave, on their tongue is deceitful flattery.
A Conservative Version
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongue they {deceive (LXX/NT)}.
American 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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Julia Smith Translation
Not steadfast in his mouth; the midst of them mischiefs; their throat a grave opened; they will be smooth with their tongue,
King James 2000
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.
Modern King James verseion
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For there is no faithfulness in their mouths; they dissemble in their hearts. Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongue they are deceitful.
The Emphasized Bible
For in his mouth is nothing worthy of trust, Their inward purpose, is engulphing ruin, - An opened sepulchre, is their throat, With their tongue, speak they smooth things.
Webster
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.
World English Bible
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Youngs Literal Translation
For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.
Themes
Evil » Speech evil speaking » General references to
Faithfulness » The wicked devoid of
Flattery » The wicked use, to » Others
Sincerity » The wicked devoid of
Sincerity » Evil people are devoid of
Speaking, evil » General references to
Speech » Evil, general references to
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References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 5:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Refuge Of The Righteous
8
O Lord, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies;
Make Your way straight (direct, right) before me.
For there is nothing trustworthy or reliable or truthful in what they say;
Their heart is destruction [just a treacherous chasm, a yawning gulf of lies].
Their throat is an open grave;
They [glibly] flatter with their [silken] tongue.
Hold them guilty, O God;
Let them fall by their own designs and councils!
Cast them out because of the abundance of their transgressions,
For they are mutinous and have rebelled against You.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Romans 3:13
“Their throat is an open grave;
They [habitually] deceive with their tongues.”
“The venom of asps is beneath their lips.”
Psalm 62:4
They consult only to throw him down from his high position [to dishonor him];
They delight in lies.
They bless with [the words of] their mouths,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.
Psalm 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Luke 11:44
Job 32:21-22
“I will not [I warn you] be partial to any man [that is, let my respect for you mitigate what I say];
Nor flatter any man.
Psalm 12:2-3
They speak deceitful and worthless words to one another;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
Psalm 36:1-4
There is no fear (dread) of God before his eyes.
Psalm 51:6
Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part [of my heart] You will make me know wisdom.
Psalm 58:2-3
No, in your heart you devise wrongdoing;
On earth you deal out the violence of your hands.
Psalm 62:9
Men of low degree are only a breath (emptiness), and men of [high] rank are a lie (delusion).
In the balances they go up [because they have no measurable weight or value];
They are together lighter than a breath.
Psalm 64:6
They devise acts of injustice, saying,
“We are ready with a well-conceived plan.”
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep (mysterious, unsearchable).
Psalm 111:1-3
I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart,
In the company of the upright and in the congregation.
Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor [with smooth words intending to do harm]
Is spreading a net for his own feet.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness,
That you may be saved.
How long will your wicked and immoral thoughts
Lodge within you?
Jeremiah 9:3-6
“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 17:9
“The heart is deceitful above all things
And it is
Who can understand it fully and know its secret motives?
Micah 6:12
“For the rich men of the city are full of violence [of every kind];
Her inhabitants speak lies
And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Mark 7:21-22
Luke 11:39
But the Lord said to him,
Romans 1:29-31
until they were filled (permeated, saturated) with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice and mean-spiritedness. They are gossips [spreading rumors],
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For as you well know, we never came with words of flattery nor with a pretext for greed—God is our witness—