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20Thou sittest{H8799)} and speakest{H8762)} against thy brother; thou{H8799)} slanderest thine own mother's son.
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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.
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.
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
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…
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