7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise `and' to do good.
Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. But the tongue can no man tame; `it is' a restless evil, `it is' full of deadly poison.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
And they bend their tongue, `as it were' their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.
As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.
They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah
`For' the sin of their mouth, `and' the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.
His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
Thou lovest all devouring words, thou deceitful tongue.
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
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Commentary on Psalms 10 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 10
The Septuagint translation joins this psalm with the ninth, and makes them but one; but the Hebrew makes it a distinct psalm, and the scope and style are certainly different. In this psalm,
Psa 10:1-11
David, in these verses, discovers,
In singing this psalm and praying it over, we should have our hearts much affected with a holy indignation at the wickedness of the oppressors, a tender compassion of the miseries of the oppressed, and a pious zeal for the glory and honour of God, with a firm belief that he will, in due time, give redress to the injured and reckon with the injurious.
Psa 10:12-18
David here, upon the foregoing representation of the inhumanity and impiety of the oppressors, grounds an address to God, wherein observe,
In singing these verses we must commit religion's just but injured cause to God, as those that are heartily concerned for its honour and interests, believing that he will, in due time, plead it with jealousy.