Psalms 50:19
Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
In Context
18If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
20Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:
Cross References
Psalms 5:9Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight.
Psalms 12:2Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.
Psalms 52:2when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul David went to the house of Achimelech
Psalms 55:12Day and night shall iniquity surround it upon its walls: and in the midst thereof are labour,
Psalms 64:3Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:5And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:17-23
The Character of the Wicked. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done,… Read the whole commentary →