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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
תאלמנה שפתי-שקר הדברות על-צדיק עתק--בגאוה ובוז
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
tAlmnh SHpty-SHqr hdbrvt `l-TSdyq `tq--bgAvh vbvz

Intermediate language

King James Variants
American King James Version   
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
Let the lying lips be put to silence; who speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Authorized (King James) Version   
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
New King James Version   
Let the lying lips be put to silence, Which speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
21st Century King James Version   
Let the lying lips be put to silence, which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
And the lips of the evil shall be stopped, for they speak lies and insanity against the righteous.
Darby Bible Translation   
Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
Let the lying lips be dumb; which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
God's Word   
Let [their] lying lips be speechless, since they speak against righteous people with arrogance and contempt.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
Let lying lips be quieted; they speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt.
International Standard Version   
Let the lying lips be made still, especially those who speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt.
NET Bible   
May lying lips be silenced--lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!
New American Standard Bible   
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With pride and contempt.
New International Version   
Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
New Living Translation   
Silence their lying lips--those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.
Webster's Bible Translation   
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
The World English Bible   
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
EasyEnglish Bible   
May people that tell lies become silent. They insult righteous people. They are proud people, and they boast about themselves.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
New Life Version   
Let the lying lips be quiet. For they speak with pride and hate those who do right and good.
The Voice Bible   
Seal their lying lips forever, for with pride and contempt boiling in their hearts, they speak boldly against the righteous and persecute those who poured their trust into You.
Living Bible   
their lying lips quieted at last—the lips of these arrogant men who are accusing honest men of evil deeds.”
New Catholic Bible   
Do not let me be put to shame, O Lord, for I have cried out to you. Let the wicked be put to shame and lie silent in the netherworld.
Legacy Standard Bible   
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With lofty pride and contempt.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Christian Standard Bible   
Let lying lips that arrogantly speak against the righteous in proud contempt be silenced.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
Let the lying lips be silenced, which speak insolently against the [consistently] righteous with pride and contempt.
New Century Version   
With pride and hatred they speak against those who do right. So silence their lying lips.
The Message   
Desperate, I throw myself on you: you are my God! Hour by hour I place my days in your hand, safe from the hands out to get me. Warm me, your servant, with a smile; save me because you love me. Don’t embarrass me by not showing up; I’ve given you plenty of notice. Embarrass the wicked, stand them up, leave them stupidly shaking their heads as they drift down to hell. Gag those loudmouthed liars who heckle me, your follower, with jeers and catcalls.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Let lying lips be silenced, those who speak against the righteous impudently with pride and contempt.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Let the lying lips be stilled that speak insolently against the righteous with pride and contempt.
Good News Translation®   
Silence those liars— all the proud and arrogant who speak with contempt about the righteous.
Wycliffe Bible   
guileful lips be made dumb. That speak wickedness against a just man; in pride, and in mis-using/in pride, and in abusing. (and let deceitful lips be made dumb. Yea, those who speak wickedness against the righteous; in pride, and in mis-using/in pride, and in abusing.)
Contemporary English Version   
Silence those proud liars! Make them stop bragging and insulting your people.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Let the lying lips be stilled that speak insolently against the righteous with pride and contempt.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Let the lying lips be stilled that speak insolently against the righteous with pride and contempt.
Common English Bible © 2011   
Let their lying lips be shut up whenever they speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt!
Amplified Bible © 2015   
Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous With pride and contempt.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
Do not let me be put to shame, for I have called to you, Lord. Put the wicked to shame; reduce them to silence in Sheol.
New American Standard Bible   
Let the lying lips be speechless, Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With pride and contempt.
The Expanded Bible   
With pride and hatred they speak against ·those who do right [the righteous]. So silence their lying lips.
Tree of Life Version   
Adonai, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon You. Let the wicked be ashamed— let them be silent in Sheol.
Revised Standard Version   
Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
New International Reader's Version   
Their lips tell lies. Let them be silenced. They speak with pride against those who do right. They make fun of them.
BRG Bible   
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Complete Jewish Bible   
Adonai, don’t let me be put to shame, for I have called on you; let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silenced in Sh’ol.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Let the lying lips be stilled that speak insolently against the righteous with pride and contempt.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
Let the siftei sheker (lying lips) be put to silence; which speak insolent things with ga’avah (pride) and contemptuously against the tzaddik.
Names of God Bible   
Let their lying lips be speechless, since they speak against righteous people with arrogance and contempt.
Modern English Version   
Let the lying lips be put to silence, who speak arrogantly in pride and contempt against the righteous.
Easy-to-Read Version   
Those evil people brag and tell lies about those who do right. They are so proud now, but their lying lips will be silent.
International Children’s Bible   
With pride and hatred they speak against the righteous. So shut their lying lips.
Lexham English Bible   
Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against the righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.
New International Version - UK   
Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.