Psalms 120:2
1 In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
3 What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
4 Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
- KJV
- Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
- WEB
- Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
- ASV
- Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue.
- DARBY
- Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.
- BLB
- O YHWH, deliver my soul from a lip of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit!
- ÅB
- Herre, fri min sjel fra en løgnaktig leppe, fra en falsk tunge!
- OTB
- Herre, frels min sjel fra løgnaktige lepper,
fra en svikefull tunge. - B1930
- Herre, fri min sjel fra en løgnaktig lebe, fra en falsk tunge!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 140:1–3
Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
Read in contextProverbs 12:22
Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
Read in contextPsalms 109:1–2
O God of my praise, be not silent.
Read in contextPsalms 52:2–4
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Read in contextPsalms 35:11
Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
Read in contextMatthew 26:59–62
Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
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