Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 50:19
19You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue for deceit.
Psalms 50:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
- New International Version (NIV)You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue frames deceit.
Context of Psalms 50:19
17You hate instruction and fling my words behind you. 18When you see a thief, you make friends with him, and you associate with adulterers. You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue for deceit. 20You sit, maligning your brother, slandering your mother’s son. 21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But I will rebuke you and lay out the case before you.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:19 word by word
פִּ֭יךָ שָׁלַ֣חְתָּ בְרָעָ֑ה וּ֝לְשׁוֹנְךָ֗ תַּצְמִ֥יד מִרְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 50:19
- Psalms 52:3You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully.Selah
- Jeremiah 9:5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they wear themselves out doing wrong.
- Psalms 5:9For there is nothing reliable in what they say; destruction is within them; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongues.
- Psalms 10:7Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
- Psalms 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.
- Psalms 36:3The words from his mouth are malicious and deceptive; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.
- Psalms 55:12Now it is not an enemy who insults me — otherwise I could bear it; it is not a foe who rises up against me — otherwise I could hide from him.
- Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,
- Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers, with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongues mutter injustice.
- Hosea 4:2Cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- Romans 3:13Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips.
- James 3:5So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how a small fire sets ablaze a large forest.
- Revelation 21:8But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars — their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Commentaries on Psalms 50:19
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19Thou givest thy mouth to evil - Margin, as in Hebrew, “thou sendest.” That is, they gave it up to evil; they employed it in evil: in falsehood, malice, deceit, slander, deception, detraction. And thy tongue frameth deceit - The word rendered “frameth” means properly to bind, to fasten; and then, to contrive, to frame. The meaning is, that it was employed in the work of deceit; that is, it was employed in devising and executing purposes of fraud and…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-23Verses 16-23 Hypocrisy is wickedness, which God will judge. And it is too common, for those who declare the Lord's statutes to others, to live in disobedience to them themselves. This delusion arises from the abuse of God's long-suffering, and a wilful mistake of his character and the intention of his gospel. The sins of sinners will be fully proved on them in the judgment of the great day. The day is coming when God will set their sins in order, sins of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-21This message is against the wicked, who only pretend to listen to God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2016-20. the wicked--that is, the formalists, as now exposed, and who lead vicious lives (compare Ro 2:21, 23). They are unworthy to use even the words of God's law. Their hypocrisy and vice are exposed by illustrations from sins against the seventh, eighth, and ninth commandments.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 50
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- 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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