Psalms 144:8
Because their mouth has spoken vanity, || And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
In Context
9O God, I sing to You a new song, || I sing praise to You on a stringed instrument of ten strings.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:40For I lift up My hand to the heavens, || And have said, I live for all time!
Psalms 12:2They each speak vanity with his neighbor, || Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
Psalms 58:3The wicked have been estranged from the womb, || They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Psalms 106:26And He lifts up His hand to them, || To cause them to fall in a wilderness,
Isaiah 44:20Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, || It has turned him aside, || And he does not deliver his soul, nor says: “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
Matthew 5:30And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast from you, for it is good to you that one of your members may perish, and not your whole body be cast into Gehenna.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 144:2-9
Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. 1 Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. 3 Lord , what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. 5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord , and… Read the whole commentary →