Psalms 51:15
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.
14 Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
- KJV
- O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
- WEB
- Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
- ASV
- O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
- DARBY
- Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
- BLB
- O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
- ÅB
- Herre, åpne mine lepper! Så skal min munn kunngjøre din pris.
- OTB
- Herre, åpne mine lepper,
Så min munn kan forkynne din pris. - B1930
- Herre, oplat mine leber! Så skal min munn kunngjøre din pris.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 13:15
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
Read in contextPsalms 63:3–5
Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
Read in contextPsalms 9:14
that I may declare all Your praises— that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.
Read in contextEzekiel 29:21
In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Read in contextPsalms 119:13
With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
Read in contextEzekiel 3:27
But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.
Read in contextExodus 4:11
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Read in contextMark 7:34
And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).
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