Psalm 139:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For there is not a word in my tongue [still unuttered], but, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. [Heb. 4:13.] American Standard Version (1901) For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether. Common English Bible There isn’t a word on my tongue, LORD, that you don’t already know completely. Catholic Public Domain Version They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. The venom of asps is under their lips. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of saps is under their lips. |
‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me that I did not know.
“How long will you say these things and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
because they have perpetrated outrage in Israel and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them; I am the one who knows and bears witness, says the Lord.
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the people who settle like dregs in wine, those who say in their hearts, “The Lord will not do good, nor will he do harm.”
If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.