Psalms 109:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalms 109:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 52:4
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
Proverbs 6:17
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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.
Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms 31:13
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Backbiting Cruelty Deceit Deception Enemy False Teachers

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

It is the unspeakable comfort of all good people that, whoever is against them, God is for them, and to him they may apply as to one that is pleased to concern himself for them. Thus David here. I. He refers himself to God’s judgment (Ps. 109:1): “ Hold not thy peace, but let my sentence come forth from thy presence, Ps. 17:2. Delay not to give judgment upon the appeal made to thee.” God saw what…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. For the mouth ... opened--or, “They have opened a wicked mouth” against me--literally, “with me,” that is, Their intercourse is lying, or, they slander me to my face (Mt 26:59).