Psalms 144:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Psalms 144:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Those mouth speaketh vanity - Vain things; things not real and true; falsehood; lies. See the notes at Psalms 24:4 . The idea is, that what they said had no foundation in truth - no reality. Tru...
Psalms 144:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand (g) of falsehood. (g) For though they shake hands, they do not keep their promises.
Psalms 144:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXLIV. Ascribed by LXX and also by T. to David against Goliath, but without any shadow of reason. Psalms 144:1-11 is really a mosaic chiefly taken from Psalms 18, but also from Psalms 8, 33, 1...
Psalms 144:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

speaketh. Compare Psalms 144:11 . and note the words they speak in verses: Psalms 144:12-15 .
Psalms 144:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Psalms 144:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, &c.— Whose mouth uttereth falsehood, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit: "For with that hand, as with a pledge, they confirmed the treaties of peace a...
Psalms 144:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. Whose mouth speaketh vanity (Hebrew, shaaw' ( H7723 ); distinct from hebel ( H1892 ), Psalms 144:4...
Psalms 144:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. consists mainly of thoughts and quotations from earlier Pss., e.g. 8 and 18. Psalms 144:12-15 are, however, quite unlike anything else in the Psalter, and some suppose them to be a quotati...
Psalms 144:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Right hand of falsehood. — Most probably with allusion to the custom (see Psalms 106:26 ) of raising the right hand in taking an oath.
Psalms 144:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 144:1-15 THE force of compilation could no further go than in this psalm, which is, in the first eleven verses ( Psalms 144:1-11 )simply a rechauffe of known psalms, and in Psalms 144:1...
Psalms 144:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's People Are Happy Psalms 144:1-15 This psalm savors of the rocky caverns from which David and his men emerged to fight. Each day the chieftain asked God to teach him to fight, and realized...
Psalms 144:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a song of triumphant assurance. Its placing at this point in the book suggests the invincible experience of trusting souls. In order to appreciate all its value, the nine psalms immediately p...
Psalms 144:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

In every sense this prayer is striking, and beautiful in whatever sense it be considered; whether as the prayer of the church for the Lord to come down in the power of the Spirit, to bruise Satan, an...
Psalms 144:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Whose mouth speaketh vanity ,.... Vain words, lies, flatteries, and deceit, Psalms 12:2 ; when they speak loftily of themselves, and contemptuously of others; when they deliver out threatenings aga...
Psalms 144:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood. Ver. 8. Whose mouth speaketh vanity ] They keep touch no further than will serve their own turns. And their rig...
Psalms 144:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bow thy heavens and come down To help me before it be too late, remembering what a frail and perishing creature I am. “David having celebrated his victories over some of his enemies, and extolled t...
Psalms 144:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. A psalm of David. 1 Blessed b...
Psalms 144:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Vanity; either, 1. Vain brags and threatenings, which shall come to nothing; or, 2. Vain and deceitful promises, or professions, or friendship. Their right hand; here mentioned either, 1. As...
Psalms 144:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This is a singularly composite Psalm. The earlier portion of it, to the end of Psalms 144:11 , consists almost entirely of a cento of quotations, strung together from earlier Psalms;...
Psalms 144:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

A Psalm of David. No doubt written after some great victory, and also before another severe struggle. The Christian man seldom escapes from one difficulty without falling into another. Thanks be unto...
Psalms 144:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This, and the six following psalms, are all eucharistical, and seem to have been composed when David's sorrows were changed to joys. He here praises God for past mercies, and asks grace for the futur...
Psalms 144:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. The Lord teaching us to fight I do not know what that “Book of the Wars of the Lord” was which is refer...
Psalms 144:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM in which praise and prayer are commingled. Almost certainly Davidic: 1. From the title. 2. From the style. 3. From the way in which David is mentioned in Psalms...
Psalms 144:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thanksgiving and Prayer for Deliverance. A psalm of David, in which he praises God for help experienced in the past and confidently implores His assistance against the enemies of the nation, as we...
Psalms 144:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 44:20 ; Isaiah 59:5-7 ; Matthew 5:30 ; Psalms 10:7 ; Psalms 109:2 ; Psalms 109:3 ; Psalms 12:2 ; Psalms 41:6 ; Psalms 58:3 ; Psalms 62:4 ; Revelation 13:16 ; Revelation 13:17
Psalms 144:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Vanity — Vain brags and threatenings which shall come to nothing. Falsehood — Deceiving themselves, by being unable to do what they designed; and others, by not giving them that help which they pro...

Psalms 144:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 144:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 144:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 144:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 144:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 144:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 144:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 144:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 144:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 144:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 144:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 144:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 144:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 144:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 144:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 144:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes