Psalms 5:9

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with their tongue.

Updated King James Version

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For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

In Context

8Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of mine enemies; make your way straight before my face.

10Destroy you them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.

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Cross References

Job 32:21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

Psalms 27:11Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

Psalms 51:6Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom.

Psalms 58:2Yea, in heart all of you work wickedness; all of you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

Psalms 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Psalms 69:19You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before you.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 5:8-12

Delight in Public Worship; Happiness of the Righteous. 7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. 8 Lead me, O Lord , in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face. 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. 10 Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them… Read the whole commentary →

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