Psalm 50:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ You set your mouth free to do evil, then harness your tongue to tell lies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ A crushed spirit is a sacrifice to God. A contrite and humbled heart, O God, you will not spurn.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Psalm 50:19 Cross References

Psalm 10:7

Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.

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 55:12

It is not enemies who taunt me— I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me— I could hide from them.

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.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all deceive their neighbors, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”