Psalm 62:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence. They take pleasure in falsehood; they bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: They delight in lies: They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

They only consult to cast him down from his height [to dishonor him]; they delight in lies. They bless with their mouths, but they curse inwardly. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

American Standard Version (1901)

They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. [Selah

Common English Bible

The only desire of this people is to bring others down low; they delight in deception. With their mouths they bless, but inside they are cursing. Selah

Catholic Public Domain Version

For your mercy is better than life itself. It is you my lips will praise.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips shall praise.

Psalm 62:4 Cross References

Psalm 119:163

I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.

Psalm 28:3

Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while mischief is in their hearts.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are destruction; their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues.

Psalm 51:6

You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah

Psalm 55:21

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Proverbs 13:5

The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked act shamefully and disgracefully.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall become for you like a break in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant;

Hosea 7:3

By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treachery.

Matthew 2:16

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the magi.

Matthew 22:15

Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said.

Matthew 22:23

The same day some Sadducees came to him saying there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question:

Matthew 27:1

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death.

Luke 11:39

Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Luke 20:20

So they watched him and sent spies who pretended to be honest, in order to trap him by what he said and then to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.

John 8:44

You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Romans 1:32

They know God’s decree, that those who practice such things deserve to die, yet they not only do them but even applaud others who practice them.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.