New American Standard Bible 2020
Psalms 144:8
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 forth lightning and scatter them; Send out Your arrows and confuse them. 7Reach out with Your hand from on high; Rescue me and save me from great waters, From the hand of foreigners Whose mouth speaks deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 9God, I will sing a new song to You; On a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You, 10Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues His servant David from the evil sword.
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אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּ֭יהֶם דִּבֶּר־שָׁ֑וְא וִֽ֝ימִינָ֗ם יְמִ֣ין שָֽׁקֶר׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 144:8
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression; Under his tongue is harm and injustice.
- Psalms 12:2They speak lies to one another; They speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
- Psalms 41:6And when he comes to see me, he speaks empty words; His heart gathers wickedness to itself; When he goes outside, he tells it.
- Psalms 58:3The wicked have turned away from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.
- Psalms 62:4They have planned only to thrust him down from his high position; They delight in falsehood; They bless with their mouth, But inwardly they curse. Selah
- Psalms 109:2For they have opened a wicked and deceitful mouth against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- Isaiah 59:5They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; The one who eats of their eggs dies, And from what is crushed, a snake breaks out.
- Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has misled him. And he cannot save himself, nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
- Matthew 5:30And if your right hand is causing you to sin, cut it off and throw it away from you; 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 13:16And he causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads,
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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