The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
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Gill's Exposition
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord,.... They are known unto the Lord, who is the searcher of the heart, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of it; he knows they are vain…
Barnes' Notes
Some prefer the margin, and render, words of pleasantness are pure. Gracious words are to God as a pure acceptable offering, the similitude being taken from the Levitical ritual, and the word “pure”…
Matthew Henry
The former part of this verse speaks of thoughts, the latter of words, but they come all to one; for thoughts are words to God, and words are judged of by the thoughts from which they proceed, so…
Cambridge Bible
thoughts of the wicked … pleasant words Lit. devices of evil … words of pleasantness. The contrast is between these, and then further between the former, as "abomination to Jehovah," and the latter as…
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