Psalm 120:2 {119:2}
Good News Translation
Save me, LORD, from liars and deceivers.

New Revised Standard Version
“Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.”

Contemporary English Version
"Come and save me, LORD, from deceitful liars!"

New American Bible
LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a treacherous tongue.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.

from lying lips

Psalm 35:11 Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

Psalm 52:2-4 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit. . . .

Psalm 109:1,2 Unto the end, a psalm for David. . . .

Psalm 140:1-3 Unto the end, a psalm of David. [2] Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man. . . .

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

Context
In My Distress I Cried to the LORD
1In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me. 2O Lord, deliver my soul from wicked lips, and a deceitful tongue.3What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue?…
Cross References
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.

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 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.

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

Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deal faithfully, please him.

Zephaniah 3:13
The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and shall lie down, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

Psalm 120:1
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