Psalms 144:8
Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:40For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
Psalms 12:2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Psalms 58:3The wicked are cut off from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Psalms 106:26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Matthew 5:30And if your right hand offend you, cut it off, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.
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 →