Psalm 62:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ They only consult to thrust him down from his excellency; They delight in lies: They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ For your mercy is better than life itself. It is you my lips will praise.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ 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 thy law do I love.

Psalm 28:3

Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; Which speak peace with their neighbours, But mischief is in their hearts

Psalm 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness: Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 52:3

Thou lovest evil more than good; And lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

Proverbs 13:5

A righteous man hateth lying: But a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

Proverbs 6:17

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

Isaiah 30:13

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

Hosea 7:3

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had carefully learned of the wise men.

Matthew 22:15

Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him in his talk.

Matthew 22:23

On that day there came to him Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him,

Matthew 27:1

Now when morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Luke 11:39

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

Luke 20:20

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which feigned themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Romans 1:32

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they which practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

Romans 7:22

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

Revelation 22:15

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.