Psalms 50:19
You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
In Context
18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
Cross References
Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
Psalms 12:2They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Psalms 55:12For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
Jeremiah 9:5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing 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 →