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3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)This psalm furnishes us with good thoughts for bad times, in which, though the prudent will keep silent (Amos 5:13) because a man may then be made an offender for a word, yet we may comfort ourselves with such suitable meditations and prayers as are here got ready to our hand. I. Let us see here what it is that makes the times bad, and when they may be said to be so. Ask the children of this world…
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