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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
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An Anatomy of Deceit
Commentators explain that David paints a comprehensive picture of his enemies' wickedness, moving from the outside in. Their "mouth" lacks faithfulness, their "throat" is like an "open sepulchre" (a metaphor for destructive and foul speech), and their "tongue" flatters. All this, David says, stems from their "inward part," their heart, which is filled with wickedness. This shows how corrupt speech is a symptom of a corrupt heart.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth - There is nothing in them that can be trusted; nothing in their promises and declarati…
19th Century
Anglican
In their mouth. —See margin.
Wickedness. —Properly, an abyss, from the root “to fall,” therefore …
Baptist
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth;
You cannot expect ungodly men to speak that which is right: For there is no faithfu…
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16th Century
Protestant
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. He still repeats the same complaints he made before, intending by this to render his enemies …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth In the mouth of the ungodly, as the Chaldee paraphrase; in the mouth o…
David often prayed alone, yet he was very consistent in attending public worship. The mercy of God should always be the foundation of both our hope…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Previously, the psalmist openly prayed against his persecutors; here he prays against the deceitful, that he may not be misled.
Con…
