grievous. hard, or arrogant.
the righteous. a righteous one.
Let the lying lips be put to silence - See the notes at Psalms 12:2-3 . The lips which speak lies. The reference here is especially to those who...
XXXI. Prayer in distress strangely intermingled with such confidence in God that the deliverance seems to be already accomplished. Psalms 31:1-...
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. Let the lying lips be put to sile...
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. Let the lying lips ... gr...
The writer of this Ps. gratefully records God's past deliverances ( Psalms 31:1-8 ), appeals to God for help against the enemies who assail him in th...
Silence. — As a different word is used from that rendered silent in Psalms 31:17 , translate let the lying lips be made dumb. Grievous. — B...
Psalms 31:1-24 THE swift transitions of feeling in this psalm may seem strange to colder natures whose lives run smoothly, but reveal a brother-so...
Jehovah Preserveth the Faithful Psalms 31:14-24 What a change ensues in the spirit of our life when we look from men and things to God! Do not...
In this great song of trust struggling through tears to triumph, we have a fine example of an experience often repeated in the history of the childre...
If we consider the foregoing verses as referring to Christ and his enemies, how striking are these verses, if read with an eye to Judas and the foes...
Let the lying lips be put to silence ,.... Being convicted of the lies told by them, and so silenced and confounded; or being cut off and destroyed,...
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. Ver. 18. Let the lying lips be...
Let the lying lips The slanderous tongues; be put to silence Either by thy discovery and vindication of my integrity; or by some imminent judgmen...
Sorrowful Complaints; Humble and Believing Prayer. 9 Have mercy upon...
Lying lips; slanderous tongues. Be put to silence, either by thy vindication and discovery of my integrity; or by some eminent judgment, which may...
Make your face to shine on your servant, Save me in your covenant love. Let me not be put to shame, O YHWH, For I have called on you, Let the wic...
INTRODUCTION A psalm, in which the psalmist rises by prayer, from trouble, to lively faith and hope in God. The older interpreters founding on the u...
Psalms 31:1 . In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; Can we say as much as that? However else this Psalm of David may end, it strikes a grand key-no...
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. This Psalm was meant to be sung, therefore it was dedicated to the chief musician; yet it is a Psalm of whic...
Psalms 31:1 . In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; This is a good beginning; this is the fulcrum which will give us the necessary leverage for lif...
Psalms 31:5 . Into thine hand I commit my spirit, the words which our Saviour used on the cross, and the words which St. Stephen used the moment b...
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble. The complaints of a sufferer, and the entreaties of a suppliant I. the complaints of a suffere...
Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and, maliciously, speak against the righteous. On scepticism To neglect thos...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is, in the main, a cry for deliverance out of pressing danger and trouble; but it is interspersed with passages of a mor...
Confidence and Triumph of Faith
Let the lying lips be put to silence, forever become dumb in death, which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous, s...
1 Samuel 2:3 ; 2 Chronicles 32:16 ; Acts 25:7 ; Isaiah 37:22-24 ; Isaiah 54:17 ; John 8:44 ; John 8:48 ; Jude 1:15 ; Matthew 10:25 ; Matthe...
18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievousc things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.