Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.
O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!
Jehovah, deliver my soul from the lying lip, from the deceitful tongue.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
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Therefore it was none other than God whom David too implored for his deliverance: "When I was in trouble, I called on the Lord, and he heard me; deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue." To him also giving thanks he spoke the words of the song in the seventeenth psalm [LXX], in the day in which the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul, saying, "I will love you, O Lord, my strength; the Lord is my strong rock and my defense and deliverer."
Athanasius of Alexandria· Discourses Against the Arians 3.25.13, 373patristic
O Lord, deliver my soul from unjust lips and from a deceitful tongue. He says this about all heresies: he says it about the Jews, he says it about the Arians, he says it about the Manichees, he says it about the rest of the heresies. When the Arian says: The Father is greater, the Son lesser; what do we say? O Lord, deliver my soul from unjust lips and from a deceitful tongue.
Jerome· Homily 41, on Psalm 119, 420patristic
Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. Not from such lips, and such a tongue of his own, which David abhorred; though every good man desires to be kept from speaking lies and deceit; nor from the company of those who have such lips and tongues, which he was determined should not dwell with him; but from the malignity of them, from being hurt in his character and reputation by them; God can restrain them, and prevent the ill influence of them when he pleases, Psa 31:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
. Ver. 2. Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips. It will need divine power to save a man from these deadly instruments. Lips are soft: but when they are lying lips they suck away the life of character and are as murderous as razors. Lips should never be red with the blood of honest men's reputes, nor salved with malicious falsehoods. David says, "Deliver my soul": the soul, the life of the man, is endangered by lying lips; cobras are not more venomous, nor devils themselves more pitiless.
Now if David, who was endued with such eminent virtue, and free from every mark of disgrace, and far removed from every wicked action, was yet assailed with contumely, is it to be wondered at if the children of God in the present day labor under false accusations, and that when they have endeavored to conduct themselves uprightly they are yet in reported of?
John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches12
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence,
For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
O God of my praise, be not silent.
You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 12:22Lying lips are detestable to the LORD, but those who deal faithfully are His delight.
leads to
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
The perverse in heart are an abomination to the LORD, but the blameless in their walk are His delight.
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth— for I delight in these…
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