Psalms 120:2
1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
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
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
Read in contextProverbs 12:22
Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.
Read in contextPsalms 109:1–2
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
Read in contextPsalms 52:2–4
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Read in contextPsalms 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Read in contextMatthew 26:59–62
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
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