whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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Whose mouth speaketh falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of lying.
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Passages linked to Psalms 144:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 12:2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
- Psalms 41:6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
- Psalms 62:4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.
- Isaiah 44:20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
- Genesis 14:22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- Deuteronomy 32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,
- Psalms 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
- Psalms 58:3 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
- Psalms 106:26 Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
- Psalms 109:2-3 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
- Isaiah 59:5-7 They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
- Matthew 5:30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
- Revelation 13:16-17 He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads; and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For though they shake hands, yet they keep not…
For though they shake hands, yet they keep not promise.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right…
Psa 144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
Ver. 8. Whose mouth speaketh vanity] They keep touch no further than will serve their own turns.
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And their right hand] No, though they give their hands upon it that they will keep promise.
Multis annis iam transactis,
Nulla fides est in pactis.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Vanity; either,
Vanity; either,
1. Vain brags and threatenings, which shall come to nothing; or,
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2. Vain and deceitful promises, or professions, or friendship. Their right hand; here mentioned either,
1. As it is used in swearing, to note their perjury; or rather,
2. As an instrument of action. Is a right hand of falsehood; deceiving either,
1. Themselves, by being unable to do what they designed; or,
2. Others, by not giving them that help which they promised to them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Whose mouth speaketh vanity,.... Vain words, lies, flatteries, and…
Whose mouth speaketh vanity,.... Vain words, lies, flatteries, and deceit, Psa 12:2; when they speak loftily of themselves, and contemptuously of others; when they deliver out threatenings against some, and make fair promises to others; it is all vanity, and comes to nothing;
and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood; their strength and power to perform what they boast of, threaten, or promise, is fallacious, is mere weakness, and cannot effect anything; or their treaties, contracts, and covenants, they enter into and sign with their right hand, are not kept by them; they act the treacherous and deceitful part. The Latin interpreter of the Arabic version renders it, "their oath is an oath of iniquity"; and Ben Balaam in Aben Ezra, and R. Adnim in Ben Melech, say the word so signifies in the Arabic language; and Schultens (m) has observed the same: but the word in that language signifies the right hand as well as an oath, and need not be restrained to that; it is better to take it in the large sense, as Cocceius (n) does; whether they lifted up the hand to pray, or to swear; or gave it to covenant with, to make contracts and agreements; or stretched it out to work with; it was a right hand of falsehood.
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(m) Observat. Philolog. p. 195. (n) Lexicon, col. 312.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Vanity - Vain brags and threatenings which shall come…
Vanity - Vain brags and threatenings which shall come to nothing. Falsehood - Deceiving themselves, by being unable to do what they designed; and others, by not giving them that help which they promised.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Those mouth speaketh vanity - Vain things; things not…
Those mouth speaketh vanity - Vain things; things not real and true; falsehood; lies. See the notes at Psa 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, there was no reliance to be placed on what they affirmed or promised. Oaths were taken by lifting up the right hand as toward God. See Gen 14:22; Exo 6:8 (Margin, and Hebrew); Deu 32:40.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. vanity] i.e. falsehood: cp. Psa_12:2; Psa_41:6.
8. vanity] i.e. falsehood: cp. Psa_12:2; Psa_41:6.
their right hand &c.] Uplifted in swearing a solemn oath. Cp. Psa_106:26.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) Right hand of falsehood.—Most probably with allusion to…
(8) Right hand of falsehood.—Most probably with allusion to the custom (see Psa_106:26) of raising the right hand in taking an oath.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Whose mouth speaketh vanity; rather, fraud. (comp. Psa_18:45) A…
Whose mouth speaketh vanity; rather, fraud. (comp. Psa_18:45) A feigned submission of some foreign enemy is probably glanced at. And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. The right hand was lifted up in the taking of a solemn oath. (see Eze_20:15)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 8. Whose mouth speaketh vanity. No wonder that…
Ver. 8. Whose mouth speaketh vanity. No wonder that men who are vanity speak vanity. "When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own. "They cannot be depended upon, let them promise as fairly as they may: their solemn declarations are light as the foam of the sea, in no wise to be depended upon. Good men desire to be rid of such characters: of all men deceivers and liars are among the most disgusting to true hearts.
And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. So far their hands and their tongues agree, for they are vanity and falsehood. These men act as falsely as they speak, and prove themselves to be all of a piece. Their falsehood is right handed, they lie with dexterity, they deceive with all their might. It is a dreadful thing when a man's expertness lies more in lies than in truth; when he can neither speak nor act without proving himself to be false. God save us from lying mouths, and hands of falsehood.
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Ver. 8. Whose mouth speaketh vanity, etc. Two things go naturally together in the versethe lying tongue and deceitful hand. The meaning is that upon the matter in hand nothing was to be looked for from any of their promises, since it was only to deceive that they flattered with their mouth and gave the hand. John Calvin.
Ver. 8. Their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. The pledge of the right hand, which used to be a witness of good faith, was violated by treachery and wickedness. Cicero. Philip. xi. c. 2.
Ver. 8. What is "a right hand of falsehood"? Ask the hypocrite, the schemer, the man of false doctrine, the boaster, the slanderer, the man who forgets his promise, the apostate.
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