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Psalm 31

Psa. 31:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Let the lying
sheqer (Hebrew #8267)
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Pronounce: sheh'-ker
Origin: from 8266
lips
saphah (Hebrew #8193)
probably from 5595 or 8192 through the idea of termination (compare 5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
KJV usage: band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, ((sea-))shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.
Pronounce: saw-faw'
Origin: or (in dual and plural) sepheth {sef-eth'}
be put to silence
'alam (Hebrew #481)
to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied
KJV usage: bind, be dumb, put to silence.
Pronounce: aw-lam'
Origin: a primitive root
; which speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
σgrievous
`athaq (Hebrew #6277)
impudent
KJV usage: arrogancy, grievous (hard) things, stiff.
Pronounce: aw-thawk'
Origin: from 6275 in the sense of license
things proudly
ga`avah (Hebrew #1346)
arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament
KJV usage: excellency, haughtiness, highness, pride, proudly, swelling.
Pronounce: gah-av-aw'
Origin: from 1342
and contemptuously
buwz (Hebrew #937)
disrespect
KJV usage: contempt(-uo usly), despised, shamed.
Pronounce: booz
Origin: from 936
against the righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
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a hard thing

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Cross References

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the lying.
Psa. 12:3• 3Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips,{HR}[The] tongue speaking great things. (Psa. 12:3)
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Psa. 59:12• 12The sin of their mouth [is] the word of their lips;{HR}And they shall be taken in their pride,{HR}And for cursing and falsehood they will tell. (Psa. 59:12)
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Psa. 63:11• 11And the king shall rejoice in God:{HR}Every one that sweareth by him shall glory,{HR}For the mouth of those that speak lies shall be stopped. (Psa. 63:11)
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Psa. 140:9‑11• 9[As for] the head of my surroundings,{HR}Let the mischief of their lips cover them.
 10Let burning coals be cast upon them;{HR}Let them be cast into the fire,{HR}Into deep water that they rise not.
 11A man of tongue shall not be established in the earth (land);{HR}A man of violence, evil shall hunt him to ruin (destruction). (Psa. 140:9‑11)
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Prov. 12:19• 19The lip of truth shall be established forever;{HR}But a lying tongue [is] but for a moment. (Prov. 12:19)
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Isa. 54:17• 17No weapon that is prepared against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] riseth against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 54:17)
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John 8:44• 44Ye are of your father, the devil, and ye desire to practice the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him: whenever he speaketh the lie, he speaketh out of his own things, because he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)
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Rev. 21:8• 8But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)
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Rev. 22:15• 15Without are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth a lie. (Rev. 22:15)
speak.
Psa. 64:3‑4• 3Who have sharpened like the sword their tongue,{HR}Have bent their arrow, a bitter word,
 4To shoot in the secret places at the perfect;{HR}Suddenly they shoot [at him] and fear not. (Psa. 64:3‑4)
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Psa. 123:3‑4• 3Be gracious to us, Jehovah,{HR}Be gracious to us,{HR}For greatly are we filled with contempt.
 4Greatly is our soul filled with the scorning of those at ease,{HR}The contempt of the proud. (Psa. 123:3‑4)
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1 Sam. 2:3• 3Talk no more so exceeding proudly;{HR}Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth:{HR}For Jehovah is a God of knowledge,{HR}And by him actions are weighed. (1 Sam. 2:3)
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2 Chron. 32:16• 16And his servants spoke yet more against Jehovah, the true God, and against his servant Hezekiah. (2 Chron. 32:16)
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Isa. 37:22‑24• 22this [is] the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him. The virgin-daughter of Zion hath despised thee, [and] laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
 23Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.
 24By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the recesses of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars, its choice cypresses: and I will enter into the height of its border, the forest of its fruitful field. (Isa. 37:22‑24)
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Matt. 10:25• 25[It is] sufficient for the disciple that he should become as his teacher, and the bondman as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more those of his household? (Matt. 10:25)
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Matt. 12:24• 24But when the Pharisees heard, they said, This [man] doth not cast out the demons but by Beelzebub, prince of the demons. (Matt. 12:24)
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John 8:48• 48The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon? (John 8:48)
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Acts 25:7• 7And when he was come, the Jews that had come from Jerusalem stood round about and laid many and grievous charges which they could not prove; (Acts 25:7)
grievous things.
Heb. a hard thing.
Psa. 94:4• 4They prate, they speak arrogantly;{HR}All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. (Psa. 94:4)
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Jude 15• 15to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly [of them] of all their works of ungodliness which they ungodlily wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners spoke against him. (Jude 15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

W. Kelly Translation

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The lips of falsehood shall be dumb,{HR}Which speak against the righteous one insolently, with pride and contempt.