7 Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,
Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,
The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.
Free me, and deliver me From the hand of sons of a stranger, Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand `is' a right hand of falsehood,
and the tongue `is' a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,
A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips. Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
`Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!
There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.
The making of treasures by a lying tongue, `Is' a vanity driven away of those seeking death.
To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.
They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.
The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart `is' war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they `are' drawn `swords'.
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart 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.