Deliver Me from My Enemies
Psalms 59:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
- KJV
- For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
- WEB
- For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
- ASV
- For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.
- LSV
- The sin of their mouth [is] a word of their lips, || And they are captured in their pride, || And they recount from the curse and lying.
- YLT
- The sin of their mouth [is] a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
- DBY
- [Because of] the sin of their mouth, the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and because of cursing and lying which they speak.
- DRC58:13
- For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of,
- GNV
- For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.
- JPS59:13
- For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.
- LXXE58:13
- For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.
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Original-language editions
- WLC59:13
- חַטַּאת־פִּ֗ימוֹ דְּֽבַר־שְׂפָ֫תֵ֥ימוֹ וְיִלָּכְד֥וּ בִגְאוֹנָ֑ם וּמֵאָלָ֖ה וּמִכַּ֣חַשׁ יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃KJV:Ps.59.12
- LXX-Br58:13
- Ἁμαρτίαν στόματος αὐτῶν, λόγον χειλέων αὐτῶν, καὶ συλληφθήτωσαν ἐν τῇ ὑπερηφανίᾳ αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐξ ἀρᾶς καὶ ψεύδους διαγγελήσονται
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
MichtamAltaschithMichalSwearing, ProfaneCharacter of the WickedSpeakingFalsehoodCharacterDavidAfflictions and Adversities
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 12:13An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
- Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
- Matthew 12:36–37But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- Psalms 120:3–4What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue? Sharp arrows will come from the warrior, with burning coals of the broom tree!
- Matthew 27:25All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
- Proverbs 11:6The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.
- Matthew 27:63“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’
- Zephaniah 3:11On that day you will not be put to shame for any of the deeds by which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will remove from among you those who rejoice in their pride, and you will never again be haughty on My…
- Psalms 64:7–8But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
- Psalms 140:9–10May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused. May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.
- Psalms 79:12Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- Proverbs 6:2if you have been trapped by the words of your lips, ensnared by the words of your mouth,
- Luke 23:5But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 59:13 in some Bibles
- 59:12 in most Bibles