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Psalms 144:8

6 Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

7 Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

9 I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—

10 to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
KJV
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
WEB
whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
ASV
Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
DARBY
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
BLB
whose mouth has spoken emptiness, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
ÅB
de hvis munn taler svik, og hvis høyre hånd er en løgnens hånd.
OTB
Hvis munn taler svik,
Og hvis høyre hånd er en løgnens hånd.
B1930
de hvis munn taler svik, og hvis høire hånd er en løgnens hånd.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 12:2

    They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

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  • Psalms 41:6

    My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

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  • Isaiah 44:20

    He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

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  • Psalms 62:4

    They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

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  • Matthew 5:30

    And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

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  • Psalms 106:26

    So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

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  • Psalms 109:2–3

    For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

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  • Psalms 10:7

    His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

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