Psalms 50 · Verse 19

Psalms 50:19

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
Psalms 50:19, King James Version

Psalms 50:19 in other translations

BSBYou unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
WEB“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
ASVThou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.
YLTThy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,
DARBYThou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;
BBEYou have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
WebsterThou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

What does Psalms 50:19 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 50:16-20

16-20. the wicked--that is, the formalists, as now exposed, and who lead vicious lives (compare Ro 2:21, 23). They are unworthy to use even the words of God's law. Their hypocrisy and vice are exposed by illustrations from sins against the seventh, eighth, and ninth commandments.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 50:16-23

Hypocrisy is wickedness, which God will judge. And it is too common, for those who declare the Lord's statutes to others, to live in disobedience to them themselves. This delusion arises from the abuse of God's long-suffering, and a wilful mistake of his character and the intention of his gospel. The sins of sinners will be fully proved on them in the judgment of the great day. The day is coming when God will set…

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Psalms 50:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

פִּ֭יךָPi.khamouth yourH6310
שָׁלַ֣חְתָּsha.Lach.tayou let looseH7971
בְרָעָ֑הve.ra.'Ahin evilH7451
וּ֝לְשׁוֹנְךָ֗u.le.shon.khaand tongue yourH3956
תַּצְמִ֥ידtatz.Midit harnessesH6775
מִרְמָֽה\׃mir.MahdeceitH4820

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Cross references for Psalms 50:19

  • Psalms 10:7

    His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Jeremiah 9:5

    And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • Revelation 21:8

    But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

  • Psalms 52:2-4

    Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

  • Isaiah 59:3-4

    For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Psalms 55:21

    The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

  • Psalms 5:9

    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.

  • Romans 3:13-14

    Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

  • James 3:5-9

    Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. …

  • Psalms 55:12

    For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

  • Psalms 12:2-3

    They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

  • Psalms 64:3-5

    Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
givest. Heb. sendest.
52:3-4; Jer 9:5
tongue.
5:9; 10:7; 12:2,3; 36:3,4; 55:12,21; 64:3-5; Isa 59:3,4; Ho 4:2
Ro 3:13,14; Jas 3:5-9; Re 21:8

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Context

  • Psalms 50:18

    When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

  • Psalms 50:19

    Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

  • Psalms 50:20

    Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

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Psalms 50:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Tu boca metías en mal, y tu lengua componía engaño.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu livres ta bouche au mal, et ta langue trame la tromperie;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Deinen Mund ließest du los zum Bösen, und Trug flocht deine Zunge.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus; cor contritum et humiliatum, Deus, non despicies.