KJV King James Version
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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Lamentations 3:62
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
WEB World English Bible
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
ASV American Standard Version
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 3
59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.
64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
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Ezekiel 36:3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made [you] desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and [are] an infamy of the people:Psalm 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison [is] under their lips. Selah.Psalm 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?Psalm 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.Jeremiah 18:18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
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