Psalm 139:4 - English Standard Version 2016 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For there is not a word in my tongue [still unuttered], but, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. [Heb. 4:13.] American Standard Version (1901) For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether. Common English Bible There isn’t a word on my tongue, LORD, that you don’t already know completely. Catholic Public Domain Version They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. The venom of asps is under their lips. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of saps is under their lips. |
‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, declares the Lord.’”
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will he do ill.’
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.