Psalms 31:18

Amplified Bible

Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous With pride and contempt.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Silence their lying lips— those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.

English Revised Version
Let the lying lips be dumb; which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Update Bible Version
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

New Century Version
With pride and hatred they speak against those who do right. So silence their lying lips.

New English Translation
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!

Webster's Bible Translation
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

World English Bible
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

English Standard Version
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
gileful lippys be maad doumbe. That speken wickidnesse ayens a iust man; in pride, and in mysusyng.

Berean Standard Bible
May lying lips be silenced-lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

Contemporary English Version
Silence those proud liars! Make them stop bragging and insulting your people.

American Standard Version
Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

Bible in Basic English
Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai , don't let me be put to shame, for I have called on you; let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silenced in Sh'ol.

Darby Translation
Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Easy-to-Read Version
Those evil people brag and tell lies about those who do right. They are so proud now, but their lying lips will be silent.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon Thee; let the wicked be ashamed, let them be put to silence in the nether-world.

King James Version (1611)
Let the lying lippes be put to silence: which speake grieuous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

New Life Bible
Let the lying lips be quiet. For they speak with pride and hate those who do right and good.

New Revised Standard
Let the lying lips be stilled that speak insolently against the righteous with pride and contempt.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

George Lamsa Translation
Let the lips of the wicked be silent; for they speak falsely and disdainfully against the righteous.

Good News Translation
Silence those liars— all the proud and arrogant who speak with contempt about the righteous.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let false lips be made dumb, - which are speaking - against a righteous one - arrogantly, with pride and contempt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(30-19) Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

Revised Standard Version
Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.

Christian Standard Bible®
Let lying lipsthat arrogantly speak against the righteousin proud contempt be silenced.

Hebrew Names Version
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

King James Version
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Lexham English Bible
Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against the righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.

Literal Translation
Let the lying lips be silenced which speak recklessly against the righteous with pride and scorn.

Young's Literal Translation
Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Shewe thy seruaunt the light of thy countenaunce, helpe me for thy mercies sake.

New American Standard Bible
Let the lying lips be speechless, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With pride and contempt.

New King James Version
Let the lying lips be put to silence, Which speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With pride and contempt.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let the lying lips be mute,Which speak arrogantly against the righteousWith lofty pride and contempt.

Contextual Overview

⁹Be gracious and compassionate to me, O LORD, for I am in trouble; My eye is clouded and weakened by grief, my soul and my body also. ¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow And my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my iniquity, And even my body has wasted away. ¹¹Because of all my enemies I have become a reproach and disgrace, Especially to my neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me on the street run from me. ¹²I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel. ¹³For I have heard the slander and whispering of many, Terror is on every side; While they schemed together against me, They plotted to take away my life. ¹⁴But as for me, I trust [confidently] in You and Your greatness, O LORD; I said, "You are my God." ¹⁵My times are in Your hands; Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue and persecute me. ¹⁶Make Your face shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness. ¹⁷Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on You; Let the wicked (godless) be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). ¹⁸Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous With pride and contempt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the lying: Psalms 12:3, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 63:11, Psalms 140:9-11, Proverbs 12:19, Isaiah 54:17, John 8:44, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15

speak: Psalms 64:3, Psalms 64:4, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, 1 Samuel 2:3, 2 Chronicles 32:16, Isaiah 37:22-24, Matthew 10:25, Matthew 12:24, John 8:48, Acts 25:7

grievous things: Heb. a hard thing, Psalms 94:4, Jude 1:15

Reciprocal: Psalms 5:10 - let Psalms 10:2 - The wicked Psalms 13:2 - exalted Psalms 17:10 - with Psalms 22:7 - shoot out Psalms 35:4 - confounded Psalms 40:14 - Let them be ashamed Psalms 50:20 - speakest Psalms 109:2 - the mouth Proverbs 10:31 - the froward Proverbs 14:3 - the mouth Obadiah 1:12 - thou have John 8:22 - Will

Cross-References

Genesis 27:41
So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him; and Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are very near; then I will kill my brother Jacob."

Genesis 28:21
and if [He grants that] I return to my father's house in safety, then the LORD will be my God.

Genesis 31:1
Jacob heard that Laban's sons were saying: "Jacob has taken away everything that was our father's, and from what belonged to our father he has acquired all this wealth and honor."

Genesis 31:2
Jacob noticed [a change in] the attitude of Laban, and saw that it was not friendly toward him as before.

Genesis 31:27
"Why did you run away secretly and deceive me and not tell me, so that [otherwise] I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with [music on the] tambourine and lyre?

Genesis 31:29
"It is in my power to harm you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to speak to Jacob, either good or bad.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let the lying lips be put to silence,.... Being convicted of the lies told by them, and so silenced and confounded; or being cut off and destroyed, as all such will be in the Lord's own time, Psalms 12:3. It is very likely the psalmist may have respect either to Doeg the Edomite, who loved lying rather than righteousness; or to others that were about Saul, who lying said to him that David sought his harm, even to take away his kingdom and his life, Psalms 52:3;

which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous; meaning himself; not that he thought himself righteous in the sight of God by any righteousness of his own, but by the righteousness of Christ imputed to him; see Psalms 143:2. Though he may have regard here to the righteousness of his cause before men, and assert himself righteous, as he might with respect to the "grievous things", the hard and lying speeches, which were spoken against him, in a proud, haughty, and contemptuous manner. And it is no unusual thing for such false charges to be brought against righteous men; nay, such hard speeches were spoken by ungodly men against Jesus Christ the righteous himself, Judges 1:15. The Targum interprets it of "reproaches".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let the lying lips be put to silence - See the notes at Psalms 12:2-3. The lips which speak lies. The reference here is especially to those who had spoken in this manner against the psalmist himself, though he makes the language general, or prays in general that God would silence all liars: a prayer certainly in which all persons may properly join.

Which speak grievous things - Margin, “a hard thing.” The Hebrew word - עתק ‛âthâq - means “bold, impudent, wicked.” Gesenius, Lexicon. The phrase here means, therefore, to speak wickedly, or to speak in a bold, reckless, impudent manner; that is, without regard to the truth of what is said.

Proudly and contemptuously - Hebrew, in pride and contempt: that is, in a manner which shows that they are proud of themselves and despise others. Slander always perhaps implies this. People are secretly proud of themselves; or they “desire” to cherish an exalted opinion of themselves, and to have others entertain the same opinion of them; and hence, if they cannot exalt themselves by their own merit, as they wish, they endeavor to humble others below their real merit, and to a level lower than themselves, by detraction.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 31:18. Let the lying lips be put to silence — As to my enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices. See Jeremiah 18:18.