Psalm 120:2 “Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.”

Psalm 120:2

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

World English Bible

Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

American Standard Version

Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.

Geneva Bible 1599

Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue.

Darby Translation

Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.

Young's Literal Translation

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

Bible in Basic English

O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit.

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Cross references

“from lying lips”

Psalm 140:1–3 Psalm 52:2–4 Psalm 35:11 Matthew 26:59–62 Psalm 109:1 Psalm 109:2

Psalm 140:1–3 · BSB

Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,

Psalm 52:2–4 · BSB

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalm 35:11 · BSB

Hostile witnesses come forward; they make charges I know nothing about.

Matthew 26:59–62 · BSB

Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

Psalm 109:1 · BSB

O God of my praise, be not silent.

Psalm 109:2 · BSB

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

Also

Proverbs 12:22

Proverbs 12:22 · BSB

Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.

3What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?

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