New Revised Standard Version
Their only plan is to bring down a person of prominence. They take pleasure in falsehood; they bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Contemporary English Version
You want to bring me down from my place of honor. You love to tell lies, and when your words are kind, hatred hides in your heart.

New American Bible
Even highly placed people plot to overthrow him. They delight in lies; they bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

consult

Psalm 2:1-3 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Matthew 2:3,4,16 And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. . . .

Matthew 22:15,23,34,35 Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech. . . .

Matthew 26:3,4 Then were gathered together the chief priests and ancients of the people, into the court of the high priest, who was called Caiphas: . . .

Matthew 27:1 And when morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took counsel against Jesus, that they might put him to death.

John 11:47-50 The chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees gathered a council and said: What do we, for this man doth many miracles? . . .

Acts 4:16,17,25-28 Saying: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a miracle hath been done by them, known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is manifest: and we cannot deny it. . . .

delight

Psalm 52:3 Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

Psalm 119:163 I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law.

Proverbs 6:17 A heart that deviseth wicked plots, feet that are swift to run into mischief,

Proverbs 13:5 The just shall hate a lying word: but the wicked confoundeth, and shall be confounded.

Hosea 7:3 They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Romans 1:32 Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

bless

Psalm 28:3 Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.

Psalm 55:21 They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.

Luke 20:20 And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor.

inwardly [heb.

Psalm 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Psalm 51:6 For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Luke 11:39 And the Lord said to him: Now you, Pharisees, make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter: but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.

Romans 7:22 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man: