Psalms 5:9 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 5:9

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

BSB

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

5 voices

Jerome

Homily 2, on Psalm 5 (420)

For there is no truth in their mouth. The heretics are described; the man of blood and deceit is described, whom the Lord shall abhor. There is no truth in their mouth: they do not have Christ the truth in their mouth, because neither do they have Him in their heart. Their heart is vain. It reads better in the Hebrew: 'Their heart is ἐπίβουλον (treacherous).' For the heart of the heretics truly lies in wait for all whom it deceives. Their throat is an open sepulchre.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth,.... In the mouth of the ungodly, as the Chaldee paraphrase; in the mouth of every one of them, as Aben Ezra interprets it: that is, in the mouth of every wicked, bloody, and deceitful man; of everyone of David's enemies, as Saul, or the conspirators with Absalom his son. There was no steadfastness in them; nothing right, sure, or firm said by them; nothing that could be depended upon; there was "no truth" in them, as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions render it.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth - There is nothing in them which can be confided in; nothing in their promises and declarations. They are false and treacherous, and I can, therefore, only appeal to thee. It is easy to see the propriety of this statement, and of those which follow, on the supposition that this refers to the rebellion of Absalom. Absalom had gone to Hebron on a false pretence 2Sa 15:7-10, and every act of his in this whole transaction had been treacherous and false.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

(1869)

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
אֵ֪ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
בְּפִ֡יהוּ	be.Fi.hu	in mouth his	H6310 →
נְכוֹנָה֮	ne.kho.Nah	[is] a reliable [thing]	H3559 →
קִרְבָּ֪ם	kir.Bam	inner being their	H7130 →
הַ֫וּ֥וֹת	ha.Vot	[is] destruction<s>	H1942 →
קֶֽבֶר־	ke.ver-	[is] a grave	H6913 →
פָּת֥וּחַ	pa.Tu.ach	open	H6605 →
גְּרוֹנָ֑ם	ge.ro.Nam	throat their	H1627 →
לְ֝שׁוֹנָ֗ם	le.sho.Nam	tongue their	H3956 →
יַחֲלִֽיקוּן׃	ya.cha.Li.kun	they speak flattery !	H2505 →

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Where the connections lead

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
Romans 3:13
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
leads to
- Psalms 140:3
  They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
- Matthew 23:27–28
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- Jeremiah 9:3–5
  “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.
- Psalms 57:4
  My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Ezekiel 13:7
  Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ even though I have not spoken?
Through
Psalms 62:4
They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah
leads to
- Psalms 55:21
  His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
- Psalms 28:3
  Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
- Romans 7:22
  For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.

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