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Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

Psalms 51:15

In 11 translations

BSB
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
KJV
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
WEB
Lord, open my lips. My mouth will declare your praise.
ASV
O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
LSV
O Lord, you open my lips, || And my mouth declares Your praise.
YLT
O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.
DBY
Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
DRC50:17
O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
GNV
Open thou my lippes, O Lord, and my mouth shall shewe foorth thy praise.
JPS51:17
O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall declare Thy praise.
LXXE50:17
O Lord, thou shalt open my lips; and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

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Original-language editions

WLC51:17
אֲ֭דֹנָי שְׂפָתַ֣י תִּפְתָּ֑ח וּ֝פִ֗י יַגִּ֥יד תְּהִלָּתֶֽךָ׃KJV:Ps.51.15
LXX-Br50:17
Κύριε, τὰ χείλη μου ἀνοίξεις, καὶ τὸ στόμα μου ἀναγγελεῖ τὴν αἴνεσίν σου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 63:3–5Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You. So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands. My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips…
  • Hebrews 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
  • Psalms 9:14that I may declare all Your praises— that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.
  • Ezekiel 29:21In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
  • Psalms 119:13With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
  • Exodus 4:11And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
  • Ezekiel 3:27But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you are to tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ Whoever listens, let him listen; and whoever refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.
  • Mark 7:34And looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means, “Be opened!”).
  • 1 Samuel 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
  • Ezekiel 16:63so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”
  • Matthew 22:12‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.
  • Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
  • Genesis 44:16“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup.”

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

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  • 51:17 in some Bibles
  • 51:15 in most Bibles

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