7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Behold, he travails with iniquity; Yes, he has conceived mischief, And brought forth falsehood.
"Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, Whose mouths speak deceit, 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 defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.{Gehenna is a name that describes a burning Hell with rotting bodies and unclean things in it} For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;" "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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 don't know me, says Yahweh.
None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."
As for the head of those who surround me, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. 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 be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.
His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
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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.