Psalm 109:2

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

Genesis 40:15

For in fact I was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also I have done nothing that they should have 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 snake's, and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah

Psalm 31:13

For I hear the whispering of many— terror all around!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be stilled that speak insolently against the righteous with pride and contempt.

Psalm 52:4

You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Proverbs 12:19

Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

Proverbs 15:28

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

Proverbs 6:17

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

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood, and not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

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.

Acts 6:13

They set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law;