Psalms 5:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 5

⁹For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalms 5:9 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Jeremiah 9:3-6
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. …
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.
Micah 6:12
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Proverbs 29:5
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

Topics

Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Depravity of Man Dishonesty Dissembling False Teachers

Commentary

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

(vv. 7-12)

In Ps. 5:7-12 David gives three characters—of himself, of his enemies, and of all the people of God, and subjoins a prayer to each of them. I. He gives an account of himself and prays for himself, Ps. 5:7, 8. 1. He is stedfastly resolved to keep closely to God and to his worship. Sinners go away from God, and so make themselves odious to his holiness and obnoxious to his justice: “ But, as for me,…

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

(vv. 9)

9. The wicked are not reliable because by nature they are full of wickedness, or literally, “wickednesses,” of every kind (Ro 8:7). sepulchre--a dwelling-place of corruption, emitting moral putridness. flatter--or, “make smooth.” their tongue--speaks deceitfully.