Add parallel Print Page Options

Deliver me, O Lord,
    from lying lips,
    from a deceitful tongue.
What shall be given to you,
    (A)and what more shall be done to you,
    you deceitful tongue?
(B)A warrior's (C)sharp arrows,
    with glowing (D)coals of the broom tree!

Read full chapter

Save me, Lord,
    from lying lips(A)
    and from deceitful tongues.(B)

What will he do to you,
    and what more besides,
    you deceitful tongue?
He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,(C)
    with burning coals of the broom bush.

Read full chapter

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Read full chapter

27 (A)A worthless man plots evil,
    and his speech[a] is like (B)a scorching fire.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:27 Hebrew what is on his lips

27 A scoundrel(A) plots evil,
    and on their lips it is like a scorching fire.(B)

Read full chapter

27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Read full chapter