Mazmur 144:8

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

yang mulutnya mengucapkan tipu dan yang tangan kanannya adalah tangan kanan dusta.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
yang mulutnya mengucapkan tipu dan yang tangan kanannya adalah tangan kanan dusta.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
yang mulutnya selalu mengatakan dusta, dan tangan kanannyapun tangan kanan khianat adanya.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mouth: Psalms 10:7, Psalms 12:2, Psalms 41:6, Psalms 58:3, Psalms 62:4, Psalms 109:2, Psalms 109:3, Isaiah 59:5-7

their right hand: Isaiah 44:20, Matthew 5:30, Revelation 13:16, Revelation 13:17

Reciprocal: Psalms 144:11 - and deliver me Isaiah 41:10 - the right

Gill's Notes on the 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 against some, and make fair promises to others; it is all vanity, and comes to nothing;

and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood; their strength and power to perform what they boast of, threaten, or promise, is fallacious, is mere weakness, and cannot effect anything; or their treaties, contracts, and covenants, they enter into and sign with their right hand, are not kept by them; they act the treacherous and deceitful part. The Latin interpreter of the Arabic version renders it, "their oath is an oath of iniquity"; and Ben Balaam in Aben Ezra, and R. Adnim in Ben Melech, say the word so signifies in the Arabic language; and Schultens m has observed the same: but the word in that language signifies the right hand as well as an oath, and need not be restrained to that; it is better to take it in the large sense, as Cocceius n does; whether they lifted up the hand to pray, or to swear; or gave it to covenant with, to make contracts and agreements; or stretched it out to work with; it was a right hand of falsehood.

m Observat. Philolog. p. 195. n Lexicon, col. 312.

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. Truth is solid and reliable; falsehood is unreliable and vain.

And their right hand is a right hand of falsehood - The meaning here seems to be that even under the solemnities of an oath, when they lifted up their hands to swear, when they solemnly appealed to God, there was no reliance to be placed on what they affirmed or promised. Oaths were taken by lifting up the right hand as toward God. See Genesis 14:22; Exodus 6:8 (Margin, and Hebrew); Deuteronomy 32:40.