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Psalms 120:2

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

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יְֽהוָ֗הyehvahJehovahיְהֹוָהnoun, proper name — “Jehovah”H3068Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodJehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050 (יָהּ), H3069 (יְהֹוִה).הַצִּ֣ילָהhatsilahdefendנָצַלverb, hiphil, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, singular, paragogic he — “defend”, a commandH5337to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense[idiom] at all, defend, deliver (self), escape, [idiom] without fail, part, pluck, preserve, recover, rescue, rid, save, spoil, strip, [idiom] surely, take (out).נַ֭פְשִׁיnafshicreatureנֶפֶשׁnoun, common, both genders, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “creature”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally,…מִשְּׂפַתmisfatfrom languageשָׂפָהpreposition, noun, common, feminine, singular, construct — “from language”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH8193the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)band, bank, binding, border, brim, brink, edge, language, lip, prating, (sea-)shore, side, speech, talk, (vain) words.שֶׁ֑קֶרsheqerwithout a causeשֶׁקֶרnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “without a cause”, the ordinary formH8267an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, [phrase] lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.מִלָּשׁ֥וֹןmilashonfrom tongueלָשׁוֹןpreposition, noun, common, both genders, singular, construct — “from tongue”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH3956the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)[phrase] babbler, bay, [phrase] evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.רְמִיָּֽהremiyahdeceitרְמִיָּהnoun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “deceit”, the ordinary formH7423remissness, treacherydeceit(-ful, -fully), false, guile, idle, slack, slothful.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

O LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.

Young’s Literal Translation

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

World English Bible

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Darby Translation

Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.

Douay-Rheims

My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

O LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from unjust lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Κύριε, ῥῦσαι τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπὸ χειλέων ἀδίκων καὶ ἀπὸ γλώσσης δολίας.