Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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Gill's Exposition
Whose mouth speaketh vanity,.... Vain words, lies, flatteries, and deceit, Psa 12:2; when they speak loftily of themselves, and contemptuously of others; when they deliver out threatenings against…
Barnes' Notes
Those mouth speaketh vanity - Vain things; things not real and true; falsehood; lies. See the notes at Psa 24:4. The idea is, that what they said had no foundation in truth - no reality. Truth is…
Here, I. David acknowledges his dependence upon God and his obligations to him, Psa 144:1, Psa 144:2. A prayer for further mercy is fitly begun with a thanksgiving for former mercy; and when we are…
Cambridge Bible
vanity i.e. falsehood: cp. Psa 12:2; Psa 41:6.
their right hand&c. Uplifted in swearing a solemn oath. Cp. Psa 106:26.
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