Psalm 51:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.

Cross References

Genesis 44:16

And Judah said, “What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; here we are then, my lord’s slaves, both we and also the one in whose possession the cup has been found.”

Psalm 119:13

With my lips I declare all the ordinances of your mouth.

Psalm 9:14

so that I may recount all your praises and, in the gates of daughter Zion, rejoice in your deliverance.

Exodus 4:11

Then the Lord said to him, “Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Ezekiel 16:63

in order that you may remember and be confounded and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 29:21

On that day I will cause a horn to sprout up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 3:27

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God’; let those who will hear, hear, and let those who refuse to hear, refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 33:11

Say to them: As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from their ways and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Matthew 22:12

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless.

Mark 7:34

Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.”

Romans 3:19

Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

Hebrews 13:15

Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

1 Samuel 2:9

He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked will perish in darkness, for not by might does one prevail.