Psalms 50:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Psalms 50:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms 52:2-4
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. …
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.
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.
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.

Topics

Deceit Deception False Teachers Falsehood Liars Lying Perjury Slander

Commentary

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

(vv. 16-23)

God, by the psalmist, having instructed his people in the right way of worshipping him and keeping up their communion with him, here directs his speech to the wicked, to hypocrites, whether they were such as professed the Jewish or the Christian religion: hypocrisy is wickedness for which God will judge. Observe here, I. The charge drawn up against them. 1. They are charged with invading and usurp…

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

(vv. 19)

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.