Psalm 109:2 {108:2}
Good News Translation
Wicked people and liars have attacked me. They tell lies about me,

New Revised Standard Version
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

Contemporary English Version
Destructive and deceitful lies are told about me,

New American Bible
O God, whom I praise, do not be silent, for wicked and treacherous mouths attack me. They speak against me with lying tongues;

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

the mouth

Psalm 31:13,18 For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life. . . .

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

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

2 Samuel 15:3-8 And Absalom answered him: Thy words seem to me good and just. But there is no man appointed by the king to hear thee. And Absalom said: . . .

2 Samuel 17:1 And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.

Proverbs 15:28 The mind of the just studieth obedience: the mouth of the wicked overfloweth with evils.

Matthew 26:59-62 And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death. . . .

of the deceitful.

Psalm 120:3 What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue?

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

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

Jeremiah 9:3,5 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. . . .

Acts 6:13 And they set up false witnesses, who said: This man ceaseth not to speak words against the holy place and the law.

Context
The Song of the Slandered
1Unto the end, a psalm for David. 2O 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.3They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:24
And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow.

Psalm 31:18
Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

Psalm 52:4
Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.

Psalm 119:69
The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.

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

Psalm 109:1
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