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Psalms 50:20

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

KJV

Benigne fac, Domine, in bona voluntate tua Sion, ut ædificentur muri Jerusalem.

Vulgate

ἀγάθυνον, Κύριε, ἐν τῇ εὐδοκίᾳ σου τὴν Σιών, καὶ οἰκοδομηθήτω τὰ τείχη Ἰερουσαλήμ.

LXX

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

ASV

תֵּ֭שֵׁב בְּ/אָחִ֣י/ךָ תְדַבֵּ֑ר בְּ/בֶֽן אִ֝מְּ/ךָ֗ תִּתֶּן דֹּֽפִי

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
דֹּֽפִי
dpy
noun · 1×
ו
v
noun · 629×
וֹ
v
noun · 220×
יְדַבֵּ֥ר
ydbr
verb · 1134×
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י
yshby
verb · 1088×
ם
m
verb · 1995×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Eph 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
  • Ezek 22:9 — In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.
  • Lev 19:16 — Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
  • Matt 10:21 — And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
  • Prov 10:18 — He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
  • Ps 101:5 — Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.