Psalm 59:12
New International Version
For the sins of their mouths, for the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter,

New Living Translation
Because of the sinful things they say, because of the evil that is on their lips, let them be captured by their pride, their curses, and their lies.

English Standard Version
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,

Berean Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for the cursing and lying which they speak.

New American Standard Bible
On account of the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips, May they even be caught in their pride, And on account of curses and lies which they tell.

NASB 1995
On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, Let them even be caught in their pride, And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

NASB 1977
On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, Let them even be caught in their pride, And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

Legacy Standard Bible
On account of the sin of their mouth and the word of their lips, Let them even be caught in their pride, And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

Amplified Bible
For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips, Let them even be trapped in their pride, And on account of the curses and lies which they tell.

Christian Standard Bible
For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. They utter curses and lies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. They utter curses and lies.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The sin of their mouths speaks; their lips rejoice in their boasting because they tell a curse and lies.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.

Contemporary English Version
My enemies are liars! So let them be trapped by their boastful lies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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,

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[because of] the sins from their mouths and the words on their lips. Let them be trapped by their own arrogance because they speak curses and lies.

Good News Translation
Sin is on their lips; all their words are sinful; may they be caught in their pride! Because they curse and lie,

International Standard Version
The sin of their mouth is the word on their lips. They will be caught in their own conceit; for they speak curses and lies.

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Literal Standard Version
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.

Majority Standard Bible
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.

New American Bible
For the sinful words of their mouths and lips let them be caught in their pride. For the lies they have told under oath

NET Bible
They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

New Revised Standard Version
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,

New Heart English Bible
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Deliver Me From My Enemies
11Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield. 12By 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. 13Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah…

Cross References
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.

Lamentations 3:62
the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

Zephaniah 3:11
On 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 holy mountain.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

For the

Psalm 64:7,8
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded…

Psalm 79:12
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Psalm 120:3,4
What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? …

taken

Psalm 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Proverbs 6:2
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

cursing

Psalm 109:17,18
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him…

Hosea 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Luke 23:5
And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.

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Psalm 59
1. David prays to be delivered from his enemies
6. He complains of their cruelty
8. He trusts in god
11. He prays against them
16. He praises God














(12) For the sin . . .--As the text stands, it runs: Sin of their mouth, word of their lips, and they are taken in their pride, and cursing and lying they say; where some would supply a copula, "The sin of their mouth is the word of their lips," which seems tautological nonsense. But, perhaps, we should take the accusative as adverb of instrument: By the sin of their mouth, by the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride.

And for cursing and lying which they speak.--That is, let their own malignant slanders, their blasphemous lies, recoil on their own heads; a frequent thought in the Psalms.

Verse 12. - For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips; rather, the sin of their mouth is each word of their lips (Hupfeld, Cheyne); or, O the sin of their mouth! O the word of their lips! (Ewald, Kay, Canon Cook). Let them even be taken in their pride. Saul's special emissaries (1 Samuel 19:11) would, of course, be proud of their mission. And for cursing and lying which they speak (comp. Psalm 10:7; and, for an example, see 2 Samuel 16:5-8).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
By the sins
חַטַּאת־ (ḥaṭ·ṭaṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 2403: An offence, its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, expiation, an offender

of their mouths
פִּ֗ימוֹ (pî·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

and the words
דְּֽבַר־ (də·ḇar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

of their lips,
שְׂפָ֫תֵ֥ימוֹ (śə·p̄ā·ṯê·mōw)
Noun - fdc | third person masculine plural
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin

let them be trapped
וְיִלָּכְד֥וּ (wə·yil·lā·ḵə·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3920: To catch, to capture, occupy, to choose, to cohere

in their pride,
בִגְאוֹנָ֑ם (ḇiḡ·’ō·w·nām)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1347: Arrogance, majesty, ornament

in the curses
וּמֵאָלָ֖ה (ū·mê·’ā·lāh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 423: An imprecation

and lies
וּמִכַּ֣חַשׁ (ū·mik·ka·ḥaš)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3585: A failure of flesh, emaciation, hypocrisy

they utter.
יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃ (yə·sap·pê·rū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5608: To count, recount, relate


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