Psalm 5:9
For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
Note Or flattery; cited in Romans 3:13
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.
Note faithfulness: or, stedfastness
Note their mouth: Heb. his mouth, that is, the mouth of any of them
Note very…: Heb. wickednesses
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- For
- Psalm 36:1–4; Psalm 52:2; Psalm 58:3; Psalm 62:4, 9; Psalm 111:1–3; Jeremiah 9:3–6; Micah 6:12; Romans 1:29–31; Romans 3:13
- faithfulness
- or, stedfastness. their mouth. Heb. hismouth, that is, the mouth of any of them. inward.
- Psalm 51:6; Psalm 58:2; Psalm 62:4; Psalm 64:6; Jeremiah 4:14; Jeremiah 17:9; Mark 7:21, 22; Luke 11:39
- very wickedness
- Heb. wickednesses. throat.
- Luke 11:44; Romans 3:13
- they
- Psalm 12:2, 3; Job 32:21, 22; Proverbs 29:5; 1 Thessalonians 2:5