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Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock

Psalms 144:8

In 11 translations

BSB
whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
KJV
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
WEB
whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
ASV
Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
LSV
Because their mouth has spoken vanity, || And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
YLT
Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
DBY
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
DRC143:8
Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
GNV
Whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
JPS
Whose mouth speaketh falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of lying.
LXXE143:8
whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּ֭יהֶם דִּבֶּר־שָׁ֑וְא וִֽ֝ימִינָ֗ם יְמִ֣ין שָֽׁקֶר׃
LXX-Br143:8
ὧν τὸ στόμα ἐλάλησε ματαιότητα, καὶ ἡ δεξιὰ αὐτῶν δεξιὰ ἀδικίας.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
  • Psalms 41:6My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
  • Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
  • Psalms 62:4They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
  • Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.
  • Genesis 14:22But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
  • Psalms 106:26So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
  • Deuteronomy 32:40For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
  • Matthew 5:30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.
  • Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
  • Revelation 13:16–17And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of…
  • Isaiah 59:5–7They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched. Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their…
  • Psalms 109:2–3For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues. They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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