Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with malice. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they tell lies. New Living Translation My enemies cannot speak a truthful word. Their deepest desire is to destroy others. Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave. Their tongues are filled with flattery. English Standard Version For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue. Berean Standard Bible For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. King James Bible For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. New King James Version For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction; Their throat is an open tomb; They flatter with their tongue. New American Standard Bible For there is nothing trustworthy in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction itself. Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue. NASB 1995 There is nothing reliable in what they say; Their inward part is destruction itself. Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue. NASB 1977 There is nothing reliable in what they say; Their inward part is destruction itself; Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue. Legacy Standard Bible There is nothing reliable in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction itself. Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue. Amplified Bible For there is nothing trustworthy or reliable or truthful in what they say; Their heart is destruction [just a treacherous chasm, a yawning gulf of lies]. Their throat is an open grave; They [glibly] flatter with their [silken] tongue. Christian Standard Bible For there is nothing reliable in what they say; destruction is within them; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongues. Holman Christian Standard Bible For there is nothing reliable in what they say; destruction is within them; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongues. American Standard Version For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue. Contemporary English Version Nothing they say is true! They just want to destroy. Their words are deceitful like a hidden pit, and their tongues are good only for telling lies. English Revised Version For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness: their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. GOD'S WORD® Translation Nothing in their mouths is truthful. Destruction comes from their hearts. Their throats are open graves. They flatter with their tongues. Good News Translation What my enemies say can never be trusted; they only want to destroy. Their words are flattering and smooth, but full of deadly deceit. International Standard Version But as for the wicked, they do not speak truth at all. Inside them there is only wickedness. Their throat is an open grave, on their tongue is deceitful flattery. Majority Standard Bible For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. NET Bible For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it. New Heart English Bible For there is nothing reliable in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they flatter. Webster's Bible Translation For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue. World English Bible For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionFor there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart [is] mischiefs, "" Their throat [is] an open grave, "" They make their tongue smooth. Young's Literal Translation For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth. Smith's Literal Translation Not steadfast in his mouth; the midst of them mischiefs; their throat a grave opened; they will be smooth with their tongue, Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims Biblefor there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is vain. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible For there is no sincerity in their mouth; their heart is corrupt. Their throat is an open grave; on their tongue are subtle lies. New Revised Standard Version For there is no truth in their mouths; their hearts are destruction; their throats are open graves; they flatter with their tongues. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleFor there is no justice in their mouth; there is wickedness in them; their throat is an open sepulchre; they deceive with their tongues. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Because there is no righteousness in their mouths, but evil is within them, and their throats are like opened tombs and their tongues subvert. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917For there is no sincerity in their mouth; Their inward part is a yawning gulf, Their throat is an open sepulchre; They make smooth their tongue. Brenton Septuagint Translation For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is vain; their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Give Ear to My Words…8Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me. 9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. 10Declare them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own devices. Drive them out for their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.… Cross References Romans 3:13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.” Jeremiah 9:3-6 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. / “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. / Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. ... Matthew 23:27-28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. / In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue. Proverbs 26:24-26 A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart. / When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. / Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. Isaiah 59:3-4 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. / No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. James 3:6-8 The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. / All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, / but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. Psalm 36:1-4 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes. / For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin. / The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing. ... Micah 6:12 For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths. Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. Psalm 52:2-4 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. / You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah / You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue. Proverbs 12:20 Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but the counselors of peace have joy. Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. 1 Peter 3:10 For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. Psalm 55:21 His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed. Treasury of Scripture For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue. For Psalm 36:1-4 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes… Psalm 52:2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully. Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. faithfulness. Psalm 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Psalm 58:2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. Psalm 62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. very wickedness. Luke 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them. Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: they Psalm 12:2,3 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak… Job 32:21,22 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man… Proverbs 29:5 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. Jump to Previous Dead Deceit Destruction Evil Faith Faithfulness Filled Flatter Grave Gulf Heart Inward Itself Mouth Open Part Reliable Sepulcher Sepulchre Sincerity Smooth Speak Stability Throat Tomb Tongue Tongues Trusted Wickedness Word WordsJump to Next Dead Deceit Destruction Evil Faith Faithfulness Filled Flatter Grave Gulf Heart Inward Itself Mouth Open Part Reliable Sepulcher Sepulchre Sincerity Smooth Speak Stability Throat Tomb Tongue Tongues Trusted Wickedness Word WordsPsalm 5 1. David prays, and professes his study in prayer4. God favors not the wicked 7. David, professing his faith, prays to God to guide him 10. to destroy his enemies 11. and to preserve the godly For there is no truth in their mouths This phrase highlights the deceitful nature of the wicked. The Hebrew word for "truth" here is "אֱמוּנָה" (emunah), which conveys a sense of faithfulness, reliability, and trustworthiness. In the context of the psalm, the absence of truth in their mouths indicates a fundamental lack of integrity and honesty. Historically, the psalmist, David, often faced adversaries who were deceitful, and this phrase underscores the spiritual and moral corruption that characterized his enemies. From a conservative Christian perspective, this serves as a reminder of the importance of truthfulness as a reflection of God's character, who is the ultimate embodiment of truth. their inmost being is destruction their throat is an open grave they flatter with their tongues Wickedness.--Properly, an abyss, from root "to fall," hence in parallelism with "open sepulcher" in next clause. This is an instance of introverted parallelism, "mouth" answering to "tongue." (See Bible Educator, iii. 50.) An open sepulchre.--At once dangerous and noisome. Flatter.--Literally, make smooth the tongue. (Comp. Psalm 12:2.) Shakespeare uses "smooth tongue." Comp. also-- "The subtle flend, Though only strong with anger and disdain, Dissembled, and this answer smooth returned." MILTON, Par. Lost. Verse 9. - For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; or, no steadfastness - "no sincerity" (Kay, Cheyne); see the comment on ver. 6. Their inward part is very wickedness; literally, wickednesses; i.e. nothing but wickedness. Their throat is an open sepulchre. "Emitting the noisome exhalations of a putrid heart" (Bishop Horns). They flatter with their tongue; literally, they make smooth their tongues, which may, perhaps, include flattery, but points rather to smooth arguments, specious reasonings, and the habit of making the worse appear the better cause (see the comment of Bishop Horsley, 'Book of Psalms,' vol. 1. pp. 154, 155). The last two clauses of this verse are quoted by St. Paul (Romans 3:13), and applied generally to the character of the ungodly.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction not a word אֵ֪ין (’ên) Adverb Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle they speak בְּפִ֡יהוּ (bə·p̄î·hū) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to can be trusted; נְכוֹנָה֮ (nə·ḵō·w·nāh) Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine singular Strong's 3559: To be erect destruction הַ֫וּ֥וֹת (haw·wō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 1942: Desire, chasm, destruction is within them. קִרְבָּ֪ם (qir·bām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 7130: The nearest part, the center Their throats גְּרוֹנָ֑ם (gə·rō·w·nām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1627: Neck, throat are open פָּת֥וּחַ (pā·ṯū·aḥ) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular Strong's 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve graves; קֶֽבֶר־ (qe·ḇer-) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6913: A grave, sepulcher their tongues לְ֝שׁוֹנָ֗ם (lə·šō·w·nām) Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 3956: The tongue practice flattery. יַחֲלִֽיקוּן׃ (ya·ḥă·lî·qūn) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun Strong's 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate Links Psalm 5:9 NIVPsalm 5:9 NLT Psalm 5:9 ESV Psalm 5:9 NASB Psalm 5:9 KJV Psalm 5:9 BibleApps.com Psalm 5:9 Biblia Paralela Psalm 5:9 Chinese Bible Psalm 5:9 French Bible Psalm 5:9 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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