Psalms 50:20
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
Psalms 50:20 in other translations
| BSB | You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. |
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| WEB | You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son. |
| ASV | Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. |
| YLT | Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander. |
| DARBY | Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son: |
| BBE | You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son. |
| Webster | Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thy own mother's son. |
What does Psalms 50:20 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.
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…
Psalms 50:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 50:20
- Matthew 10:21
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Leviticus 19:16
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.
- Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
- Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
- Matthew 5:11
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
- Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
- Luke 22:65
And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
- 1 Timothy 3:11
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
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Context
- 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.
- Psalms 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Psalms 50:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tomabas asiento, y hablabas contra tu hermano; contra el hijo de tu madre ponías infamia. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu t’assieds, tu parles contre ton frère, tu diffames le fils de ta mère: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Du saßest da, redetest wider deinen Bruder, wider den Sohn deiner Mutter stießest du Schmähung aus. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Benigne fac, Domine, in bona voluntate tua Sion, ut ædificentur muri Jerusalem. |