Lamentations 3:62
Good News Translation
All day long they talk about me and make their plans.

New Revised Standard Version
The whispers and murmurs of my assailants are against me all day long.

Contemporary English Version
All day long they attack with words and whispers.

New American Bible
The whispered murmurings of my adversaries, against me all day long;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

lips

Psalm 59:7,12 Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us? . . .

Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

Ezekiel 36:3 Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you have been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of the talk, and the reproach of the people:

and

Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Context
A Prayer for Deliverance
61Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me. 62Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.63Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.…
Cross References
Psalm 59:7
Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?

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 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

Ezekiel 36:3
Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you have been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of the talk, and the reproach of the people:

Lamentations 3:61
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