Psalms 50:19–20
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
†Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- †Hebrew wordingHebr. thou sendest.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine owne mothers sonne.
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From verse 19
- Psalms 10:7Rank 1 from verse 19
- Jeremiah 9:5Rank 2 from verse 19
5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
5‖And they will deceiue euery one his neighbour, and will not speake the trueth, they haue taught their tongue to speake lies, and weary themselues to commit iniquity.
- Psalms 52:2–4Rank 3 from verse 19
2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
2Thy tongue deuiseth mischiefes: like a sharpe rasor, working deceitfully.
3Thou louest euill more then good; and lying rather then to speake righteousnesse. Selah.
4‖Thou louest all deuouring words, O thou deceitfull tongue.
- Revelation 21:8Rank 4 from verse 19
8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
8But the fearefull, and vnbeleeuing, and the abominable, and murderers, and whore mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all lyars, shall haue their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
- Isaiah 59:3–4Rank 5 from verse 19
3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
3*For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie, your lippes haue spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered peruersnesse.
4*None calleth for iustice, nor any pleadeth for trueth: they trust in vanity and speake lies; they conceiue mischiefe, and bring forth iniquitie.
- James 3:5–9Rank 6 from verse 19
5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
5Euen so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things: behold, how great ‖a matter a litle fire kindleth.
6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquitie: so is the tongue amongst our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.
7For euery †kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of †mankind.
8But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euill, ful of deadly poyson.
9Therewith blesse wee God, euen the Father: and therewith curse wee men, which are made after the similitude of God.
- Psalms 5:9Rank 7 from verse 19
9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
9For there is no ‖faithfulnes †in their mouth, their inward part is †very wickednesse: *their throat is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 55:21Rank 8 from verse 19
- Romans 3:13–14Rank 9 from verse 19
13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
13Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue vsed deceit, the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes:
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse:
- Psalms 12:2–3Rank 11 from verse 19
2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
3The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
2†They speake vanitie euery one with his neighbour: with flattering lips, and with a double heart do they speake.
3†The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things.
- Psalms 36:3–4Rank 12 from verse 19
3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
4He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
3The words of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: he hath left off to bee wise, and to doe good.
4‖Hee deuiseth mischiefe vpon his bed, he setteth himselfe in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not euill.
- Psalms 55:12Rank 13 from verse 19
12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
12For it was not an enemie that reproached me, then I could haue borne it, neither was it hee that hated me, that did magnifie himselfe against me, then I would haue hid my selfe from him.
- Psalms 64:3–5Rank 14 from verse 19
3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
3*Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bowes to shoote their arrowes, euen bitter words:
4That they may shoote in secret at the perfect: suddenly doe they shoote at him, and feare not.
5‖†They incourage themselues in an euill matter: they commune of laying snares priuily; they say, Who shall see them?
From verse 20
- Matthew 10:21Rank 1 from verse 20
21And 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.
21*And the brother shall deliuer vp the brother to death, and the father the childe: and the children shall rise vp against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Leviticus 19:16Rank 2 from verse 20
- Proverbs 10:18Rank 3 from verse 20
- Matthew 5:11Rank 4 from verse 20
- Psalms 31:18Rank 5 from verse 20
- Revelation 12:10Rank 6 from verse 20
10And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
10And I heard a lowd voyce saying in heauen, Now is come saluation, and strength, and the kingdome of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
- 1 Timothy 3:11Rank 7 from verse 20
- Luke 22:65Rank 8 from verse 20
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Psalms 50:19
The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.
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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.
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1. The organ of the mouth used for tasting and speech. 2. Speech, words, or a language. 3. A tongue-shaped projection or arm of land or water.
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Forms, devises, or contrives.
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Falsehood, guile, fraud, trickery, or a purpose, word, or act intended to mislead.
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Psalms 50:20
The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
Sense 1: A male sibling; a near kinsman. Sense 2: A fellow member of a people or faith.
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slanderest
Second-person singular present form of slander, meaning to spread such a report.
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Sense 1: A female parent. Sense 2: Figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.
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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.
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50:1THE mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
50:1¶ The mightie God, euen the LORD hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sunne, vnto the going downe thereof.
50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
50:2Out of Sion the perfection of beautie, God hath shined.
50:3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
50:3Our God shall come, and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and it shalbe very tempestuous round about him.
50:4He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
50:4He shall call to the heauens from aboue, and to the earth, that hee may iudge his people.
50:5Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
50:5Gather my Saints together vnto mee: those that haue made a couenant with me, by sacrifice.
50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
50:6And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes; for God is iudge himselfe. Selah.
50:7Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
50:7Heare, O my people, and I will speake, O Israel, and I will testifie against thee; I am God, euen thy God.
50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
50:8I will not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, to haue bene continually before me.
50:9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
50:9I will take no bullocke out of thy house, nor hee goates out of thy folds.
50:10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
50:10For euery beast of the forrest is mine, and the cattell vpon a thousand hilles.
50:11I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
50:11†I know all the foules of the mountaines: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
50:12**If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fulnesse thereof.
50:13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
50:13Will I eate the flesh of bulles, or drinke the blood of goats?
50:14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
50:14Offer vnto God thankesgiuing, and pay thy vowes vnto the most high.
50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
50:15And call vpon mee in the day of trouble; I will deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.
50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
50:16But vnto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to doe, to declare my Statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Couenant in thy mouth?
50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
50:17*Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behinde thee.
50:18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
50:18†When thou sawest a thiefe, then thou consentedst with him, and hast bene partaker with adulterers.
50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
50:19†Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Selected passage50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine owne mothers sonne.
Selected passage50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy selfe: but I will reproue thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I teare you in pieces, and there be none to deliuer.
50:23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
50:23†Who so offereth praise, glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conuersation aright, will I shew the saluation of God.