Psalm 59:12 {58:13}
Good News Translation
Sin is on their lips; all their words are sinful; may they be caught in their pride! Because they curse and lie,

New Revised Standard Version
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,

Contemporary English Version
My enemies are liars! So let them be trapped by their boastful lies.

New American Bible
For the sinful words of their mouths and lips let them be caught in their pride. For the lies they have told under oath

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of,

For the

Psalm 64:7,8 And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds: . . .

Psalm 79:12 And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Psalm 120:3,4 What shall be given to thee, or what shall be added to thee, to a deceitful tongue? . . .

Psalm 140:9,10 The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them. . . .

Proverbs 12:13 For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.

Proverbs 18:7 The mouth of a fool is his destruction: and his lips are the ruin of his soul.

Matthew 12:36,37 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. . . .

Matthew 27:25,63 And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children. . . .

taken

Psalm 10:2 Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

Proverbs 6:2 Do, therefore, my son, what I say, and deliver thyself: because thou art fallen into the hand of thy neighbour. Run about, make haste, stir up thy friend:

Proverbs 11:6 When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.

cursing

Psalm 109:17,18 But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death. . . .

Hosea 4:2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.

Luke 23:5 But they were more earnest, saying: He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.

Context
Deliver Me From My Enemies
11God shall let me see over my enemies: slay them not, lest at any time my people forget. Scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my protector: 12For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride. And for their cursing and lying they shall be talked of,13When they are consumed: when they are consumed by thy wrath, and they shall be no more. And they shall know that God will rule Jacob, and all the ends of the earth.…
Cross References
Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow.

Proverbs 12:13
For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.

Lamentations 3:62
Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

Zephaniah 3:11
In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up because of my holy mountain.

Psalm 59:11
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