New King James Version
Psalms 144:8
8Whose mouth speaks lying words, 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 Living Translation (NLT)Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead.
Context of Psalms 144:8
6Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them. 7Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 9I will sing a new song to You, O God; On a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You, 10The One who gives salvation to kings, Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword.
Read all of Psalms 144Psalms 144:8 word by word
אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּ֭יהֶם דִּבֶּר־שָׁ֑וְא וִֽ֝ימִינָ֗ם יְמִ֣ין שָֽׁקֶר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 144:8
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity.
- Psalms 12:2They speak idly everyone with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
- Psalms 41:6And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies; His heart gathers iniquity to itself; When he goes out, he tells it.
- Psalms 58:3The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
- Psalms 62:4They only consult to cast him down from his high position; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, But they curse inwardly. Selah
- Psalms 109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful Have opened against me; They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
- Isaiah 59:5They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
- Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes; A deceived heart has turned him aside; And he cannot deliver his soul, Nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
- Matthew 5:30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
- Revelation 13:16He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand 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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