Psalm 31:18 {30:19}
Good News Translation
Silence those liars--all the proud and arrogant who speak with contempt about the righteous.

New Revised Standard Version
Let the lying lips be stilled that speak insolently against the righteous with pride and contempt.

Contemporary English Version
Silence those proud liars! Make them stop bragging and insulting your people.

New American Bible
Strike dumb their lying lips, which speak arrogantly against the righteous in contempt and scorn.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

the lying

Psalm 12:3 May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.

Psalm 59:12 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,

Psalm 63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked things.

Psalm 140:9-11 The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them. . . .

Proverbs 12:19 The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

speak

Psalm 64:3,4 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing, . . .

Psalm 123:3,4 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt. . . .

1 Samuel 2:3 Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

2 Chronicles 32:16 And many other things did his servants speak against the Lord God, and against Ezechias his servant.

Isaiah 37:22-24 This is the word which the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin the daughter of Sion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged the head after thee. . . .

Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the good man of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?

Matthew 12:24 But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

John 8:48 The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?

Acts 25:7 Who being brought, the Jews stood about him, who were come down from Jerusalem, objecting many and grievious causes, which they could not prove:

grievous things [heb.

Psalm 94:4 Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?

Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

Context
Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
17Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell. 18Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.19O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.…
Cross References
Jude 1:15
To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

1 Samuel 2:3
Do not multiply to speak lofty things, boasting: let old matters depart from your mouth: for the Lord is a God of all knowledge, and to him are thoughts prepared.

2 Kings 2:23
And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald head, go up, thou bald head.

Psalm 4:2
O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?

Psalm 17:10
They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.

Psalm 94:4
Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?

Psalm 109:2
O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.

Psalm 120:2
O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

Proverbs 6:17
A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

Proverbs 17:7
Eloquent words do not become a fool, nor lying lips a prince.

Obadiah 1:12
In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.

Psalm 31:17
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