Other translations
American Standard Version
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Lord Jehovah, set a guard at my mouth and a guard for my lips
Darby Bible Translation
Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my tips.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
God's Word
O LORD, set a guard at my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
LORD, set up a guard for my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
International Standard Version
LORD, set a guard over my mouth; keep watch over the door to my lips.
NET Bible
O LORD, place a guard on my mouth! Protect the opening of my lips!
New American Standard Bible
Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
New International Version
Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.
New Living Translation
Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.
Webster's Bible Translation
Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
The World English Bible
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
EasyEnglish Bible
Lord, keep my mouth safe, so that I do not speak bad things.
Young‘s Literal Translation
Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.
New Life Version
O Lord, put a watch over my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
The Voice Bible
Guard my mouth, O Eternal One; control what I say. Keep a careful watch on every word I speak.
Living Bible
Help me, Lord, to keep my mouth shut and my lips sealed.
New Catholic Bible
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Legacy Standard Bible
Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Jubilee Bible 2000
Set a watch, O LORD, upon my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Christian Standard Bible
Lord, set up a guard for my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
Amplified Bible © 1954
Set a guard, O Lord, before my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
New Century Version
Lord, help me control my tongue; help me be careful about what I say.
The Message
Post a guard at my mouth, God, set a watch at the door of my lips. Don’t let me so much as dream of evil or thoughtlessly fall into bad company. And these people who only do wrong— don’t let them lure me with their sweet talk! May the Just One set me straight, may the Kind One correct me, Don’t let sin anoint my head. I’m praying hard against their evil ways! Oh, let their leaders be pushed off a high rock cliff; make them face the music. Like a rock pulverized by a maul, let their bones be scattered at the gates of hell.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
Set a guard over my mouth, Lord. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Good News Translation®
Lord, place a guard at my mouth, a sentry at the door of my lips.
Wycliffe Bible
Lord, set thou a keeping to my mouth; and a door of standing about to my lips. (Lord, set thou a guard at my mouth; yea, a sentry at the door of my lips.)
Contemporary English Version
Help me to guard my words whenever I say something.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord, keep watch over the door of my lips!
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Common English Bible © 2011
Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep close watch over the door that is my lips.
Amplified Bible © 2015
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips [to keep me from speaking thoughtlessly].
English Standard Version Anglicised
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Set a guard, Lord, before my mouth, keep watch over the door of my lips.
New American Standard Bible
Set a guard, Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips.
The Expanded Bible
Lord, ·help me control my tongue [L set a guard on my mouth]; ·help me be careful about what I say [L keep watch on the door of my mouth; Prov. 13:3; 21:23; James 3:1–12].
Tree of Life Version
Set a guard, Adonai, over my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Revised Standard Version
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord, keep watch over the door of my lips!
New International Reader's Version
Lord, guard my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
BRG Bible
Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
Complete Jewish Bible
Set a guard, Adonai, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Be shomer, Hashem, over my mouth; guard the door of my lips.
Names of God Bible
O Yahweh, set a guard at my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.
Modern English Version
Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord, help me control what I say. Don’t let me say anything bad.
International Children’s Bible
Lord, help me control my tongue. Help me be careful about what I say.
Lexham English Bible
Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.
New International Version - UK
Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.