Psalm 109:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For the mouths of the wicked and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; they have spoken to me and against me with lying tongues.

American Standard Version (1901)

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

Common English Bible

because the mouths of wicked liars have opened up against me, talking about me with lying tongues.

Catholic Public Domain Version

The Lord will send forth the scepter of your virtue from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

Psalm 109:2 Cross References

Genesis 40:15

For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”

2 Samuel 17:1

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the poison of vipers. Selah

Psalm 31:13

Yea, I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Psalm 52:4

You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Proverbs 15:28

The mind of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

Proverbs 6:17

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

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Acts 6:13

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law;