Lamentations 3:62
New International Version
what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.

New Living Translation
My enemies whisper and mutter as they plot against me all day long.

English Standard Version
The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.

Berean Standard Bible
the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

King James Bible
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

New King James Version
The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.

New American Standard Bible
The lips of my assailants and their talk Are against me all day long.

NASB 1995
The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.

NASB 1977
The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.

Legacy Standard Bible
The lips of those who rise against me and their whispering Are against me all day long.

Amplified Bible
The lips and whispering of my assailants Are against me all day long.

Christian Standard Bible
The slander and murmuring of my opponents attack me all day long.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The slander and murmuring of my opponents attack me all day long.

American Standard Version
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The lips of those that stood and schemed against me all day

Brenton Septuagint Translation
the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day;

Contemporary English Version
All day long they attack with words and whispers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

English Revised Version
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their imagination against me all the day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The words and thoughts of those who attack me are directed against me all day long.

Good News Translation
All day long they talk about me and make their plans.

International Standard Version
the whisperings of my opponents, their scheming against me all day long.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The lips of those that rose up against me, And their muttering against me all the day.

Literal Standard Version
The lips of my withstanders, | Even their meditation against me all the day.

Majority Standard Bible
the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

New American Bible
The whispered murmurings of my adversaries, against me all day long;

NET Bible
My assailants revile and conspire against me all day long.

New Revised Standard Version
The whispers and murmurs of my assailants are against me all day long.

New Heart English Bible
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

Webster's Bible Translation
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

World English Bible
the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

Young's Literal Translation
The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.

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Context
A Prayer for Deliverance
61O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me— 62the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long. 63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.…

Cross References
Psalm 59:7
See what they spew from their mouths--sharp words from their lips: "For who can hear us?"

Psalm 59:12
By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

Psalm 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Ezekiel 36:3
therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,


Treasury of Scripture

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

lips

Psalm 59:7,12
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear? …

Psalm 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Ezekiel 36:3
Therefore 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:

and

Jeremiah 18:18
Then 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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1. The prophet bewails his own calamities
22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
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(62) The lips . . . The organs of speech are used boldly for the words which they uttered, and so stand parallel with "reproaches" in Lamentations 3:61.

Verse 62. - The lips stand here for "the fruit of the lips;" and the verb which governs the nouns is "thou hast heard," in the preceding verse.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
the slander
שִׂפְתֵ֤י (śip̄·ṯê)
Noun - fdc
Strong's 8193: The lip, language, a margin

and murmuring
וְהֶגְיוֹנָ֔ם (wə·heḡ·yō·w·nām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1902: A murmuring sound, a musical notation, a machination

of my opponents
קָמַי֙ (qā·may)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

against me
עָלַ֖י (‘ā·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

all day long.
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every


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OT Prophets: Lamentations 3:62 The lips of those that rose up (Lam. La Lm)
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