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Psalms 144:8
8Whose mouths speak deceit [without restraint], And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Psalms 144:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- New International Version (NIV)whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.
- English Standard Version (ESV)whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Context of Psalms 144:8
6Flash lightning and scatter my enemies; Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them. 7Stretch out Your hand from above; Set me free and rescue me from great waters, Out of the hands of [hostile] foreigners [who surround us] Whose mouths speak deceit [without restraint], And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 9I will sing a new song to You, O God; Upon a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You, 10Who gives salvation to kings, Who sets David His servant free from the evil sword.
Read all of Psalms 144Psalms 144:8 word by word
אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּ֭יהֶם דִּבֶּר־שָׁ֑וְא וִֽ֝ימִינָ֗ם יְמִ֣ין שָֽׁקֶר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 144:8
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of curses and deceit (fraud) and oppression; Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness [injustice and sin].
- Psalms 12:2They speak deceitful and worthless words to one another; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
- Psalms 41:6And when one comes to see me, he speaks empty words, While his heart gathers malicious gossip [against me]; When he goes away, he tells it [everywhere].
- Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].
- Psalms 62:4They consult only to throw him down from his high position [to dishonor him]; They delight in lies. They bless with [the words of] their mouths, But inwardly they curse. Selah.
- Psalms 109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- Isaiah 59:5They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s webs; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from an egg which is crushed a viper breaks out.
- Isaiah 44:20That kind of man (the idolater) feeds on ashes [and is satisfied with ashes]! A deceived mind has led him astray, so that he cannot save himself, or ask, “Is this thing [that I am holding] in my right hand not a lie?”
- Matthew 5:30If your right hand makes you stumble and leads you to sin, cut it off and throw it away [that is, remove yourself from the source of temptation]; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
- Revelation 13:16Also he compels all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead [signifying allegiance to the beast],
Commentaries on Psalms 144:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Those mouth speaketh vanity - Vain things; things not real and true; falsehood; lies. See the notes at Psalm 24:4. The idea is, that what they said had no foundation in truth - no reality. Truth is solid and reliable; falsehood is unreliable and vain. And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood - The meaning here seems to be that even under the solemnities of an oath, when they lifted up their hands to swear, when they solemnly appealed to God…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-8The psalmist asks God to act against his enemies (compare Psalm 18:7–19).Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 8Whose mouth speaks vanity, etc. Scripture connects vanity with the mouth and falsehood with the right hand. When they come to tell with their mouth, they invent exaggerations of vanity, even to misrepresent what is known. If they come to stretch forth their right hand to swear, they refrain from vanity, lest they be caught as thieves, but they do swear falsely, for so is their lot.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 144
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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