Psalm 109:2
◄  Psalm 109:2  ►
New International Version (©2011)
for people who are wicked and deceitful have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

New Living Translation (©2007)
while the wicked slander me and tell lies about me.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For they have opened the wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

International Standard Version (©2012)
for the mouths of wicked and deceitful people are opened against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

NET Bible (©2006)
For they say cruel and deceptive things to me; they lie to me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Because the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceiver is opened against me; they have spoken with me with a false tongue.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Wicked and deceitful people have opened their mouths against me. They speak against me with lying tongues.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

American King James Version
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

American Standard Version
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O God, be not thou silent in thy praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me.

Darby Bible Translation
For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,

English Revised Version
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

World English Bible
for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Young's Literal Translation
For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me,.... Or "of deceit" (x) itself; most wicked and very deceitful men, who sometimes flattered and pretended friendship, as the Jews did to Christ, when they designed ill against him; though at other times their mouths were opened, and they poured out their calumnies and reproaches very freely and largely; traducing his person, and aspersing his character as a wicked man; blaspheming his miracles, as if done by the help of the devil; charging his doctrine with novelty, falsehood, and blasphemy; loading him with invidious names, as Samaritan, madman, &c; representing him as an enemy to the state, as a seditious person, and a disturber of the nation's peace; particularly their mouths were opened against him when they called for his crucifixion, and would have no denial; and especially when he was on the cross, where they gaped upon him with their mouths, and poured out their scoffs and jeers at him; see Psalm 22:14.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful - literally, "The mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit." This acquaints us with the nature of the wrong which had been done him. It was slander; undeserved reproach.

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

The mouth of the wicked and - the deceitful are opened against me - Many persons are continually uttering calumnies against me. Thou knowest my heart and its innocence; vindicate my uprightness against these calumniators.

Geneva Study Bible

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

King James Translators' Notes

of the deceitful: Heb. of deceit

are opened: Heb. have opened themselves

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. For the mouth … opened-or, "They have opened a wicked mouth"

against me-literally, "with me," that is, Their intercourse is lying, or, they slander me to my face (Mt 26:59).

Psalm 109:2 Parallel Commentaries
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God of My Praise, Don't Remain Silent
1Hold not your peace, O God of my praise; 2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. 3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. …

Exodus 22:24 My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of lies and threats; trouble and evil are under his tongue.
Psalm 31:18 Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
Psalm 52:4 You love every harmful word, you deceitful tongue!
Psalm 119:69 Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart.
Psalm 120:2 Save me, LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.