Mazmur 27:12

27:12 Do not turn me over to my enemies, ¹ 

for false witnesses who want to destroy me testify against me. ² 

Mazmur 31:18

31:18 May lying lips be silenced –

lips ³  that speak defiantly against the innocent ⁴ 

with arrogance and contempt!

Mazmur 35:19

35:19 Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason ⁵  gloat ⁶  over me!

Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes! ⁷ 

Mazmur 109:2

109:2 For they say cruel and deceptive things to me;

they lie to me. ⁸ 

Mazmur 119:69

119:69 Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, ⁹ 

but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

Mazmur 119:128

119:128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. ¹⁰ 

I hate all deceitful actions. ¹¹ 

Mazmur 144:11

144:11 Grab me and rescue me from the power of foreigners, ¹² 

who speak lies,

and make false promises. ¹³ 

[27:12]  ¹ tn Heb “do not give me over to the desire of my enemies.”

[27:12]  ² tn Heb “for they have risen up against me, lying witnesses and a testifier of violence.” The form יָפֵחַ (yafeakh) is traditionally understood as a verb meaning “snort, breathe out”: “for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty” (KJV; cf. BDB 422 s.v.). A better option is to take the form as a noun meaning “a witness” (or “testifier”). See Prov 6:19; 12:17; 14:5, 25; 19:5, 9, and Hab 2:3.

[31:18]  ³ tn Heb “the [ones which].”

[31:18]  ⁴ tn Or “godly.”

[35:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “[with] a lie.” The Hebrew noun שֶׁקֶר (sheqer, “lie”) is used here as an adverb, “falsely, wrongfully” (see Ps 38:19).

[35:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “rejoice.”

[35:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “[do not let] those who hate me without cause pinch [i.e., wink] an eye.” The negative particle is understood in the second line by ellipsis (see the preceding line). In the Book of Proverbs “winking an eye” is associated with deceit and trickery (see 6:13; 10:10; 16:30).

[109:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “for a mouth of evil and a mouth of deceit against me they open, they speak with me [with] a tongue of falsehood.”

[119:69]  ⁹ tn Heb “smear over me a lie.”

[119:128]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for this reason all the precepts of everything I regard as right.” The phrase “precepts of everything” is odd. It is preferable to take the kaf (כ) on כֹּל (kol, “everything) with the preceding form as a pronominal suffix, “your precepts,” and the lamed (ל) with the following verb as an emphatic particle. See L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 138.

[119:128]  ¹¹ tn Heb “every false path.”

[144:11]  ¹² tn Heb “from the hand of the sons of foreignness.”

[144:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “who [with] their mouth speak falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.” See v. 8 where the same expression occurs.