The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
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Gill's Exposition
The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips,.... This is either a prophecy or a prayer, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe; that God either would or should cut off such who used flattery with their lips,…
Barnes' Notes
The Lord shall cut off - This might be rendered, “May the Lord cut off,” implying a wish on the part of the psalmist that it might occur. But probably the common rendering is the correct one. It is…
This psalm furnishes us with good thoughts for bad times, in which, though the prudent will keep silent (Amo 5:13) because a man may then be made an offender for a word, yet we may comfort ourselves…
The prayer for help passes into a prayer for the excision of these false-hearted braggarts. Cp. Psa 5:10.
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