In My Distress I Cried to the LORD
Psalms 120:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.
- KJV
- Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
- WEB
- Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
- ASV
- Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.
- LSV
- O YHWH, deliver my soul from a lying lip, || From a deceitful tongue!
- YLT
- O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
- DBY
- Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.
- DRC119:2
- O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.
- GNV
- Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue.
- JPS
- O LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
- LXXE119:2
- Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- יְֽהוָ֗ה הַצִּ֣ילָה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִשְּׂפַת־שֶׁ֑קֶר מִלָּשׁ֥וֹן רְמִיָּֽה׃
- LXX-Br119:2
- Κύριε, ῥῦσαι τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπὸ χειλέων ἀδίκων καὶ ἀπὸ γλώσσης δολίας.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 140:1–3Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence, who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long. They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
- Proverbs 12:22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
- Psalms 52:2–4Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 109:1–2O God of my praise, be not silent. For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
- Matthew 26:59–62Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death. But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. Finally two came forward and…
- Psalms 35:11Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 119:2 in some Bibles
- 120:2 in most Bibles