Psalms 144:8
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Psalms 144:8 in other translations
| BSB | whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful. |
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| WEB | whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
| ASV | Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
| YLT | Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
| DARBY | Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
| BBE | In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit. |
| Webster | Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. |
What does Psalms 144:8 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 144:1-8
When men become eminent for things as to which they have had few advantages, they should be more deeply sensible that God has been their Teacher. Happy those to whom the Lord gives that noblest victory, conquest and dominion over their own spirits. A prayer for further mercy is fitly begun with a thanksgiving for former mercy. There was a special power of God, inclining the people of Israel to be subject to David…
Psalms 144:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 144:8
- Psalms 12:2
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
- Psalms 41:6
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
- Isaiah 44:20
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
- Psalms 62:4
They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
- Matthew 5:30
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
- Psalms 106:26
Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
- Psalms 109:2-3
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
- Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Revelation 13:16-17
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
- Deuteronomy 32:40
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
- Genesis 14:22
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
- Isaiah 59:5-7
They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 144:7
Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
- Psalms 144:8
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
- Psalms 144:9
I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
Psalms 144:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cuya boca habla vanidad, y su diestra es diestra de mentira. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Dont la bouche profère la vanité et dont la droite est une droite de mensonge. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Deren Mund Eitelkeit redet, und deren Rechte eine Rechte der Lüge ist! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Miserator et misericors Dominus: patiens, et multum misericors. |