Psalm 144:8 “whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.”

Psalm 144:8

whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

World English Bible

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

American Standard Version

Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Geneva Bible 1599

Whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Darby Translation

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Young's Literal Translation

Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood.

Bible in Basic English

In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

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Cross references

“mouth”

Psalm 12:2 Psalm 41:6 Psalm 62:4 Psalm 10:7 Psalm 58:3 Isaiah 59:5–7

Psalm 12:2 · BSB

They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

Psalm 41:6 · BSB

My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

Psalm 62:4 · BSB

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

Psalm 10:7 · BSB

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Psalm 58:3 · BSB

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

Isaiah 59:5–7 · BSB

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

“their right hand”

Isaiah 44:20 Matthew 5:30 Revelation 13:16 Revelation 13:17

Isaiah 44:20 · BSB

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

Matthew 5:30 · BSB

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to depart into hell.

Revelation 13:16 · BSB

And the second beast required all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,

Revelation 13:17 · BSB

so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Also

Genesis 14:22 Psalm 106:26 Deuteronomy 32:40

Genesis 14:22 · BSB

But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

Psalm 106:26 · BSB

So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

Deuteronomy 32:40 · BSB

For I lift up My hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

9I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—

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