Psalm 50:19
 Psalm 50:19 
New International Version (©2011)
You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Your mouth is filled with wickedness, and your tongue is full of lies.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You let your mouth loose in evil And your tongue frames deceit.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue for deceit.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You give your mouth free reign for evil, and your tongue devises deceit.

NET Bible (©2006)
You do damage with words, and use your tongue to deceive.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“Your mouth has spoken wickedness and your tongue speaks deceit.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You let your mouth say anything evil. Your tongue plans deceit.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

American King James Version
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

American Standard Version
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;

English Revised Version
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

World English Bible
"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

50:16-23 Hypocrisy is wickedness, which God will judge. And it is too common, for those who declare the Lord's statutes to others, to live in disobedience to them themselves. This delusion arises from the abuse of God's long-suffering, and a wilful mistake of his character and the intention of his gospel. The sins of sinners will be fully proved on them in the judgment of the great day. The day is coming when God will set their sins in order, sins of childhood and youth, of riper age and old age, to their everlasting shame and terror. Let those hitherto forgetful of God, given up to wickedness, or in any way negligent of salvation, consider their urgent danger. The patience of the Lord is very great. It is the more wonderful, because sinners make such ill use of it; but if they turn not, they shall be made to see their error when it is too late. Those that forget God, forget themselves; and it will never be right with them till they consider. Man's chief end is to glorify God: whoso offers praise, glorifies him, and his spiritual sacrifices shall be accepted. We must praise God, sacrifice praise, put it into the hands of the Priest, our Lord Jesus, who is also the altar: we must be fervent in spirit, praising the Lord. Let us thankfully accept God's mercy, and endeavour to glorify him in word and deed.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit; rather, thou hast loosed thy mouth to evil; i.e. given it liberty to utter all manner of wicked speech; and especially thou hast used mouth and tongue to cozen and deceive.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou givest thy mouth to evil,.... To speak evil things against Christ, his doctrines, ordinances, ministers and people; and to deliver out evil doctrines, pernicious to the souls of men;

and thy tongue frameth deceit; puts and joins together deceitful words in a very artful manner, by which simple and unstable minds are beguiled.


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The Mighty One Calls
18When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers. 19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. 20You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. …

Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of lies and threats; trouble and evil are under his tongue.
Psalm 36:3 The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.
Psalm 52:2 You who practice deceit, your tongue plots destruction; it is like a sharpened razor.