Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
KJV
nonne tu, Deus, qui repulisti nos ? et non egredieris, Deus, in virtutibus nostris ?
Vulgate
οὐχὶ σύ, ὁ θεός, ὁ ἀπωσάμενος ἡμᾶς; καὶ οὐχὶ ἐξελεύσῃ, ὁ θεός, ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσιν ἡμῶν;
LXX
Forthe sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.
ASV
אַל תַּהַרְגֵ֤/ם פֶּֽן יִשְׁכְּח֬וּ עַמִּ֗/י הֲנִיעֵ֣/מוֹ בְ֭/חֵילְ/ךָ וְ/הוֹרִידֵ֑/מוֹ מָֽגִנֵּ֣/נוּ אֲדֹנָֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַל
'l
preposition · 720×
וֹ
v
noun · 232×
י
y
noun · 440×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יָרְד֥וּ
yrdv
verb · 377×
ם
m
verb · 167×
מָגֵ֣ן
mgn
noun · 62×
נ֖וּעַ
nv'
verb · 42×
פֶּן
pn
conjunction · 132×
שָׁכָֽחְתִּי
shkchty
verb · 102×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Moses in the beginning of the history and writings of the Old Testament speaks to us of the objects of sense, and enumerates them to us at length. For, In the beginning, he says, God made the heaven and the earth, and then he adds, that light was created, and a second heaven and the stars, the various kinds of living creatures, and, that we may not delay by going through par…
Cross-references
- Hos 4:2 — By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
- Jas 3:9 — Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
- Lam 3:62 — The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
- Luke 6:45 — A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the
- Matt 12:36 — But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
- Prov 12:13 — The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
- Prov 18:7 — A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
- Ps 5:10 — Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
- Ps 10:2 — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Ps 10:2 — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Ps 10:7 — His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Ps 10:7 — His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Ps 28:4 — Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
- Ps 31:18 — Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Ps 64:8 — So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
- Ps 109:17 — As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
- Ps 120:3 — What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
- Rom 3:14 — Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: