Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.
Thou sittest, against thy brother thou speakest, Against a son of thy mother givest slander.
Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:
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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Matthew 5:11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
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If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.
You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
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Matthew 10:21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
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You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
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Leviticus 19:16You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
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“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
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Voices4
"Sitting, you spoke against your brother." Here he shows how the sin of the tongue is aggravated by the condition of persons. And first, by the condition of the speaker; second, by the condition of the one spoken against; third, by the condition of the …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274patristic
Thou sittest,.... Either in the chair of Moses, or on the seat of judgment, in the great sanhedrim of the nation; or, as Aben Ezra paraphrases it, "in the seat of the scornful"; and speakest against thy brother; even to pass sentence upon him, to put him to death for professing faith in Christ, Mat 10:21; thou slanderest thine own mother's son; the apostles and disciples of Christ, who were their brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh; and even our Lord Jesus Christ himself, who was bone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Ver. 20. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother. He sits down to it, makes it his meat, studies it, resolves upon it, becomes a master of defamation, occupies the chair of calumny. His nearest friend is not safe, his dearest relative escapes not. Thou slanderest thine own mother's son. He ought to love him best, but he has an ill word for him. The son of one's own mother was to the Oriental a very tender relation; but the wretched slanderer knows no claims of kindred.
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. God, no longer (even in appearance) disregarding such, exposes their sins and threatens a terrible punishment.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
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Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
You must not go about spreading slander among your people. You must not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am the LORD.
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
Among you are slanderous men bent on bloodshed; within you are those who eat on the mountain shrines and commit acts of indecency.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God.
In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.
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