Tree of Life Version
Psalms 50:19
19You have unleashed your mouth for evil and harnessed 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
17For you hate discipline, and you cast My words behind you. 18When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and your portion is with adulterers. You have unleashed your mouth for evil and harnessed your tongue for deceit. 20You sit, speaking against your brother, slandering your own mother’s son. 21These things you have done— Should I keep silent? You thought I was just like you— but I reprove you, and set the case before your eyes.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:19 word by word
פִּ֭יךָ שָׁלַ֣חְתָּ בְרָעָ֑ה וּ֝לְשׁוֹנְךָ֗ תַּצְמִ֥יד מִרְמָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 50:19
- Psalms 52:3Why do you brag about evil, mighty man? God’s lovingkindness is every day.
- Jeremiah 9:5“You dwell in the midst of deceit. In deceit they refuse to know Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
- Psalms 5:9Lead me, Adonai, in Your righteousness, because of my enemies. Make Your path straight before me.
- Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, lies and oppression. On his tongue are trouble and iniquity.
- Psalms 12:2Help, Adonai! For no one godly exists. For the faithful have vanished from the children of men.
- Psalms 36:3For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to notice his iniquity —or hate it.
- Psalms 55:12Ruins are in her midst. Oppression and deceit never leave her square.
- Psalms 64:3Hide me from the conspiracy of evildoers, from the tumult of workers of iniquity,
- Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
- Hosea 4:2Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
- Romans 3:13Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they keep deceiving. The poison of vipers is under their lips.
- James 3:5So also the tongue is a small member—yet it boasts of great things. See how so small a fire sets a blaze so great a forest!
- Revelation 21:8But for the cowardly and faithless and detestable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars—their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, 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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