Psalms 51:15

King James Version

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, open my lips,and my mouth will declare your praise.

Hebrew Names Version
Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

English Standard Version
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.

New Century Version
Lord, let me speak so I may praise you.

New English Translation
O Lord, give me the words! Then my mouth will praise you.

Amplified Bible
O Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare Your praise.

New American Standard Bible
Lord, open my lips, So that my mouth may declare Your praise.

World English Bible
Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Open thou my lippes, O Lorde, and my mouth shall shewe foorth thy praise.

Legacy Standard Bible
O Lord, open my lips,That my mouth may declare Your praise.

Berean Standard Bible
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.

Contemporary English Version
Help me to speak, and I will praise you, Lord.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then I will teach the wicked your ways, and sinners will return to you.

Darby Translation
Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Easy-to-Read Version
My Lord, I will open my mouth and sing your praises!

George Lamsa Translation
O LORD, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise;

Good News Translation
Help me to speak, Lord, and I will praise you.

Lexham English Bible
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will proclaim your praise.

Literal Translation
O Lord, open my lips and my mouth shall declare Your praise.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Open my lippes (O LORDE) that my mouth maye shewe thy prayse.

American Standard Version
O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

Bible in Basic English
O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners shall return unto Thee.

King James Version (1611)
O Lord open thou my lips, and my mouth shall shew foorth thy praise.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O Lorde open thou my lippes: and my mouth shall set foorth thy prayse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O Lord, thou shalt open my lips; and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

English Revised Version
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, `opene thou my lippis; and my mouth schal telle thi preysyng.

Update Bible Version
O Lord, open you my lips; And my mouth shall show forth your praise.

Webster's Bible Translation
O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

New King James Version
O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.

New Living Translation
Unseal my lips, O Lord, that my mouth may praise you.

New Life Bible
O Lord, open my lips, so my mouth will praise You.

New Revised Standard
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O My Lord! my lips, wilt thou open, And, my mouth, shall declare thy praise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(50-17) O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

Revised Standard Version
O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.

Young's Literal Translation
O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
O Lord, open my lips, That my mouth may declare Your praise.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. ¹⁵ O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. ¹⁶ For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. ¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. ¹⁸ Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. ¹⁹ Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O Lord: Genesis 44:16, 1 Samuel 2:9, Ezekiel 16:63, Matthew 22:12, Romans 3:19

open: Exodus 4:11, Ezekiel 3:27, Ezekiel 29:21, Mark 7:34

mouth: Psalms 63:3-5, Psalms 119:13, Hebrews 13:15

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:1 - my mouth 1 Chronicles 21:26 - and called Psalms 9:1 - show Psalms 9:14 - That Psalms 19:14 - Let Psalms 35:28 - General Psalms 71:8 - General Psalms 102:21 - General Psalms 119:43 - take not Psalms 119:175 - Let my Psalms 145:21 - My mouth Isaiah 35:6 - the tongue Isaiah 38:20 - therefore Ezekiel 3:26 - I will Ezekiel 24:27 - thy Matthew 12:22 - blind Luke 1:64 - his mouth 2 Corinthians 6:11 - our mouth Philippians 4:6 - in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O Lord, open thou my lips,.... The Targum adds, "in the late"; which were shut with a sense of sin, with shame of it, and sorrow for it; and though they were in some measure opened in prayer to God for the forgiveness of it, as appears by various petitions in this psalm, yet he still wanted a free spirit and boldness at the throne of grace, which the believer has when his heart is sprinkled from an evil conscience by the blood of Christ; and especially his lips were shut as to praise and thanksgiving; the guilt of sin had sealed up his lips, that he could not sing the praises of God as he had formerly done; and only a discovery of pardoning grace could open them, and for this he prays:

and my mouth shall show forth thy praise: the praise of his mercy, grace, goodness, truth, and faithfulness, in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; see Psalms 103:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O Lord, open thou my lips - That is, by taking away my guilt; by giving me evidence that my sins are forgiven; by taking this burden from me, and filling my heart with the joy of pardon. The original word is in the future tense, but the meaning is well expressed in our common translation. There was, in fact, at the same time a confident expectation that God “would” thus open his lips, and a desire that he should do it.

And my mouth shall show forth thy praise - Or, I will praise thee. Praise is the natural expression of the feelings when the sense of sin is removed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 51:15. O Lord, open thou my lips — My heart is believing unto righteousness; give me thy peace, that my tongue may make confession unto salvation. He could not praise God for pardon till he felt that God had pardoned him; then his lips would be opened, and his tongue would show forth the praise of his Redeemer.