New English Translation
Psalms 144:8
8who speak lies, and make false promises.
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
6Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them! 7Reach down from above! Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, from the power of foreigners, who speak lies, and make false promises. 9O God, I will sing a new song to you! Accompanied by a ten-stringed instrument, I will sing praises to you, 10the one who delivers kings, and rescued David his servant from a deadly sword.
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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 deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.
- Psalms 12:2People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.
- Psalms 41:6When someone comes to visit, he pretends to be friendly; he thinks of ways to defame me, and when he leaves he slanders me.
- Psalms 58:3The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.
- Psalms 62:4They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses. (Selah)
- Psalms 109:2For they say cruel and deceptive things to me; they lie to me.
- Isaiah 59:5They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snake and spin a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die, a poisonous snake is hatched.
- Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
- Matthew 5:30If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.
- Revelation 13:16He also caused everyone (small and great, rich and poor, free and slave) to obtain a mark on their right hand or on their forehead.
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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