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Psalms 50:20
20You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son.
Psalms 50:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You sit around and slander your brother— your own mother’s son.
Context of Psalms 50:20
18When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers. 19You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son. 21When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you. 22“Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:20 word by word
תֵּ֭שֵׁב בְּאָחִ֣יךָ תְדַבֵּ֑ר בְּבֶֽן־אִ֝מְּךָ֗ תִּתֶּן־דֹּֽפִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 50:20
- Psalms 31:18Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
- Matthew 5:11“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
- Luke 22:65And they said many other insulting things to him.
- Leviticus 19:16“ ‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “ ‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the Lord.
- Proverbs 10:18Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.
- 1 Timothy 3:11In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.
- Revelation 12:10Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
- Matthew 10:21“Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.
Commentaries on Psalms 50:20
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother - To the general character of falsehood and slander there is now added the fact that they were guilty of this in the most aggravated manner conceivable - against their nearest relations, the members of their own families. They were not only guilty of the crime against neighbors - against strangers - against persons to whom they sustained no near relationship; but against those of their own households - those…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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