Psalm 34:13
New International Version
keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies.

New Living Translation
Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies!

English Standard Version
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

Berean Standard Bible
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

King James Bible
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

New King James Version
Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit.

New American Standard Bible
Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

NASB 1995
Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

NASB 1977
Keep your tongue from evil, And your lips from speaking deceit.

Legacy Standard Bible
Guard your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

Amplified Bible
Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

Christian Standard Bible
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

American Standard Version
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips will not speak deceit.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Contemporary English Version
Then don't say cruel things and don't tell lies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

English Revised Version
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Keep your tongue from saying evil things and your lips from speaking deceitful things.

Good News Translation
Then keep from speaking evil and from telling lies.

International Standard Version
Then keep your tongue from doing evil and your lips from spreading lies.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.

Literal Standard Version
Keep your tongue from evil, | And your lips from speaking deceit.

Majority Standard Bible
Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech.

New American Bible
Keep your tongue from evil, your lips from speaking lies.

NET Bible
Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech!

New Revised Standard Version
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

New Heart English Bible
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Webster's Bible Translation
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

World English Bible
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Young's Literal Translation
Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

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Context
Taste and See that the LORD is Good
12Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days? 13Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech. 14Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.…

Cross References
James 1:26
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.

1 Peter 2:22
"He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth."

1 Peter 3:10
For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

Psalm 39:1
I said, "I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present."

Psalm 141:3
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.

Proverbs 13:3
He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.


Treasury of Scripture

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.

Keep

Psalm 39:1
To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Matthew 12:35-37
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things…

speaking

Psalm 55:11
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Proverbs 12:7,19,22
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand…

Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

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Psalm 34
1. David praises God, and exhorts others thereto by his experience
8. They are blessed who trust in God
11. He exhorts to the fear of God
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Verse 13. - Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. If the end be happiness, the means will be right moral conduct; and, first of all, right government of the tongue. Sins of the tongue are numerous, and abundantly noted in the Psalms (Psalm 5:9; Psalm 10:7; Psalm 12:3; Psalm 15:3; Psalm 50:19; Psalm 57:4; Psalm 73:8, 9, etc.). They are more difficult to avoid than any others; they cling closer to us; they are scarcely ever wholly laid aside. "If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body" (James 3:2). The meek Moses "spake unadvisedly with his lips" (Psalm 106:33). Job "darkened counsel by words without knowledge "(Job 38:2). St. Peter's words on one occasion drew upon him the rebuke, "Get thee behind me, Satan" (Matthew 16:23).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Keep
נְצֹ֣ר (nə·ṣōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5341: To watch, guard, keep

your tongue
לְשׁוֹנְךָ֣ (lə·šō·wn·ḵā)
Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3956: The tongue

from evil
מֵרָ֑ע (mê·rā‘)
Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

and your lips
וּ֝שְׂפָתֶ֗יךָ (ū·śə·p̄ā·ṯe·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - fdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin

from deceitful
מִרְמָֽה׃ (mir·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4820: Deceit, treachery

speech.
מִדַּבֵּ֥ר (mid·dab·bêr)
Preposition-m | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue


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