Psalms 50:19
17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
- KJV
- Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
- WEB
- “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
- ASV
- Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.
- DARBY
- Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;
- BLB
- With your mouth you send forth evil, and your tongue weaves deceit.
- ÅB
- Din munn slipper du løs med ondt, og din tunge spinner sammen svik.
- OTB
- Du taler fritt ondt,
Og din tunge vever bedrag. - B1930
- Din munn slipper du løs med ondt, og din tunge spinner sammen svik.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:5
Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
Read in contextRevelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
Read in contextPsalms 52:2–4
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Read in contextIsaiah 59:3–4
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
Read in contextPsalms 55:21
His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
Read in contextPsalms 5:9
For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
Read in contextRomans 3:13–14
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
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