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Webster's Bible Translation
Psalms 31:18
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Let lying lipsthat arrogantly speak against the righteousin proud contempt be silenced.
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
With pride and hatred they speak against those who do right. So silence their lying lips.
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous With pride and contempt.
Let the lying lips be speechless, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With pride and contempt.
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.
Let the lying lips be mute,Which speak arrogantly against the righteousWith lofty pride and contempt.
May lying lips be silenced-lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
Silence those proud liars! Make them stop bragging and insulting your people.
Adonai , don't let me be put to shame, for I have called on you; let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silenced in Sh'ol.
Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
Those evil people brag and tell lies about those who do right. They are so proud now, but their lying lips will be silent.
Let the lips of the wicked be silent; for they speak falsely and disdainfully against the righteous.
Silence those liars— all the proud and arrogant who speak with contempt about the righteous.
Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against the righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.
Let the lying lips be silenced which speak recklessly against the righteous with pride and scorn.
Shewe thy seruaunt the light of thy countenaunce, helpe me for thy mercies sake.
Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.
O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon Thee; let the wicked be ashamed, let them be put to silence in the nether-world.
Let the lying lippes be put to silence: which speake grieuous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.
Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.
Let the lying lips be dumb; which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
gileful lippys be maad doumbe. That speken wickidnesse ayens a iust man; in pride, and in mysusyng.
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Let the lying lips be put to silence, Which speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Silence their lying lips— those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.
Let the lying lips be quiet. For they speak with pride and hate those who do right and good.
Let the lying lips be stilled that speak insolently against the righteous with pride and contempt.
Let false lips be made dumb, - which are speaking - against a righteous one - arrogantly, with pride and contempt.
(30-19) Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.
Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With pride and contempt.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the lying: Psalms 12:3, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 63:11, Psalms 140:9-11, Proverbs 12:19, Isaiah 54:17, John 8:44, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15
speak: Psalms 64:3, Psalms 64:4, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, 1 Samuel 2:3, 2 Chronicles 32:16, Isaiah 37:22-24, Matthew 10:25, Matthew 12:24, John 8:48, Acts 25:7
grievous things: Heb. a hard thing, Psalms 94:4, Jude 1:15
Reciprocal: Psalms 5:10 - let Psalms 10:2 - The wicked Psalms 13:2 - exalted Psalms 17:10 - with Psalms 22:7 - shoot out Psalms 35:4 - confounded Psalms 40:14 - Let them be ashamed Psalms 50:20 - speakest Psalms 109:2 - the mouth Proverbs 10:31 - the froward Proverbs 14:3 - the mouth Obadiah 1:12 - thou have John 8:22 - Will
Cross-References
And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that [was] our father's; and of [that] which [was] our father's hath he obtained all this glory.
And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and behold, it [was] not towards him as before.
Why didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spoke to me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let the lying lips be put to silence,.... Being convicted of the lies told by them, and so silenced and confounded; or being cut off and destroyed, as all such will be in the Lord's own time, Psalms 12:3. It is very likely the psalmist may have respect either to Doeg the Edomite, who loved lying rather than righteousness; or to others that were about Saul, who lying said to him that David sought his harm, even to take away his kingdom and his life, Psalms 52:3;
which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous; meaning himself; not that he thought himself righteous in the sight of God by any righteousness of his own, but by the righteousness of Christ imputed to him; see Psalms 143:2. Though he may have regard here to the righteousness of his cause before men, and assert himself righteous, as he might with respect to the "grievous things", the hard and lying speeches, which were spoken against him, in a proud, haughty, and contemptuous manner. And it is no unusual thing for such false charges to be brought against righteous men; nay, such hard speeches were spoken by ungodly men against Jesus Christ the righteous himself, Judges 1:15. The Targum interprets it of "reproaches".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Let the lying lips be put to silence - See the notes at Psalms 12:2-3. The lips which speak lies. The reference here is especially to those who had spoken in this manner against the psalmist himself, though he makes the language general, or prays in general that God would silence all liars: a prayer certainly in which all persons may properly join.
Which speak grievous things - Margin, “a hard thing.” The Hebrew word - עתק ‛âthâq - means “bold, impudent, wicked.” Gesenius, Lexicon. The phrase here means, therefore, to speak wickedly, or to speak in a bold, reckless, impudent manner; that is, without regard to the truth of what is said.
Proudly and contemptuously - Hebrew, in pride and contempt: that is, in a manner which shows that they are proud of themselves and despise others. Slander always perhaps implies this. People are secretly proud of themselves; or they “desire” to cherish an exalted opinion of themselves, and to have others entertain the same opinion of them; and hence, if they cannot exalt themselves by their own merit, as they wish, they endeavor to humble others below their real merit, and to a level lower than themselves, by detraction.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 31:18. Let the lying lips be put to silence — As to my enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices. See Jeremiah 18:18.
