Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 10:7
Fraud] RV 'oppression.' Vanity] RV 'iniquity.' Part of this v. is quoted in Romans 3:14 as a description of human depravity in general.
Fraud] RV 'oppression.' Vanity] RV 'iniquity.' Part of this v. is quoted in Romans 3:14 as a description of human depravity in general.
Verse Psalms 10:7. _HIS MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING, AND DECEIT, AND FRAUD_] What a finished character! A blasphemer, a deceitful man, and a knave!...
HIS MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING - Profaneness; blasphemy against God. In the former verse the writer had described the feelings of the “heart;” he now proceeds to specify the open acts of the wicked. The...
Psalms 10 _ 1. The cry of Jehovah and what causeth it (Psalms 10:1)_ 2. That wicked one (Psalms 10:3) 3. Prayer for divine Intervention: Faith's Vision ...
9 AND 10. YAHWEH THE REFUGE OF HIS PEOPLE. These two Pss., divided in MT, were originally one, This is proved by the fact that they are one in LXX. and Vulg., by the absence of title over Psalms 10, a...
HIS MOUTH, &C. Quoted in Romans 3:14....
PSALMS 9:10 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Kingship of Jehovah in Zion Finally Triumphant over a League between the Nations and the Lawless One. ANALYSIS These two psalms are bound together as originally on...
_HIS MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND DECEIT AND FRAUD: UNDER HIS TONGUE IS MISCHIEF AND VANITY._ His mouth is full of cursing. The sinner's guilt toward his neighbour, wherein he is confirmed by prosper...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
CURSING AND DECEIT. — From the connection of cursing with deceit (comp. Hosea 4:2, “swearing and lying “), we must understand perjury....
אָלָ֤ה פִּ֣יהוּ מָ֭לֵא וּ מִרְמֹ֣ות וָ תֹ֑ךְ
Psalms 10:1 Psalms 9:1; Psalms 10:1 are alike in their imperfectly acrostic structure, the occurrence of certain phrases- _ e.g._, the very uncommon expression for "times of trouble,...
GOD WILL NOT FORGET THE LOWLY Psalms 10:1 The malice of our foes, and especially of Satan, is powerfully described, Psalms 10:1. Now it is the venom beneath the serpent's tongue, Psalms 10:7; now the...
In the Septuagint and other versions, probably the ancient Hebrew, Psalms 9:1; Psa 10:1-18 appear as one. There is a clear connection between them, but it is that of contrast. In the former the singer...
_Snares. Wonderful expression! The wicked cannot escape. (Haydock) --- Brimstone, as he did upon Sodom, Genesis xix. 4., and Jude 7. --- Cup. At feasts, each person (Calmet) had his portion and his ow...
Here the picture of the ungodly is finished, and an awful finishing it is. Hatred to God, despising his laws, his ways, his judgments; and, more especially, a bitterness towards that plan of salvation...
7._His mouth is full of cursing. _The scope of these four verses is this: If God intends to succor his servants, it is now a proper time for doing so, inasmuch as the lawlessness of the ungodly has bu...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 9 AND 10. In Psalms 9 and 10 we enter historically on the circumstances of the remnant in the last days in the land. The great principles having been laid down ...
HIS MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING,.... Or, "he has filled his mouth with cursing" e God and good men, his superiors, himself and others. The word signifies "an oath"; and may design either a profane oath,...
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity. Ver. 7. _His mouth is full of cursing and deceit_] Such cursing men are cursed men; and for such slippery...
_His mouth is full of cursing_ Of oaths and blasphemies against God; of reviling and execration of other men, especially of those that are good, and those that stand in his way, and hinder his wicked...
His mouth is full of cursing, blasphemous reviling and execration, AND DECEIT AND FRAUD, by which he oppresses the godly; UNDER HIS TONGUE IS MISCHIEF AND VANITY, violence for others and the essence o...
PRAYER AGAINST THE ENEMY OF THE CHURCH. Luther writes in his summary of this psalm: "This is a psalm of prayer which complains about the arch-enemy of the kingdom of Christ, that is, Antichrist, who...
DECEIT: _ Heb._ deceits VANITY: Or, iniquity...
1-11 God's withdrawings are very grievous to his people, especially in times of trouble. We stand afar off from God by our unbelief, and then complain that God stands afar off from us. Passionate wor...
OF CURSING; either, 1. Of oaths and blasphemies against God. Or, 2. Of reviling and execration of other men, especially those that are good; or those that stand in his way, and hinder his wicked des...
Psalms 10:7 mouth H6310 full H4390 (H8804) cursing H423 deceit H4820 oppression H8496 tongue H3956 trouble H5999 iniqui
‘His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppressiveness, Under his tongue are mischief and iniquity. He sits in the hiding places of the villages, In the secret places he murders the innocent....
CONTENTS: The psalmist meditates on the wicked and desires to see them humbled under God's hand. CHARACTERS: Psalmist, God. CONCLUSION: The Christian cannot but lay to heart that which is offensive...
Psalms 10:1. _Why standest thou afar off, oh Lord?_ This is the prayer of David against some very wicked and neighbouring prince, who through pride and thirst for gold, was lurking like a lion, and mu...
_His mouth is full of cursing._ BLACK ARTS A missionary from Polynesia brought home a “soul trap.” It was a series of rings twisted in cocoanut fibre. If a native should commit a great offence, or of...
_Why standest Thou afar off, O Lord?_ A THEOLOGICAL DIFFICULTY, A HAUGHTY IMPIETY, AN EARNEST PRAYER I. A theological difficulty. “Why standest Thou afar off, O Lord?” Some great enormity was now un...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 10:1. See note on Psalm 9. Psalms 10:1 is a lament, relating to cases in which “the wicked hotly pursu
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 10:7 See Romans 3:14. ⇐...
INTRODUCTION “This psalm seems to belong to the time of the Captivity, or the return of the captives. It was probably made in reference to Sanballat, and the other enemies of the Jews. There is a gre...
EXPOSITION This psalm is to some extent connected with the preceding one, but not very closely. It has turns of expression which are identical, and not common elsewhere; _e.g. _"in times of trouble" ...
Why do you stand a far off, O LORD? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? (Psalms 10:1) Have you ever prayed that? "Lord, why aren't You doing something about it? Why do You seem to hide Yours...
Isaiah 59:4; James 3:6; Jeremiah 9:3; Jeremiah 9:6; Job 15:35;...
Tongue — Under his fair and plausible speeches, mischief is hid and covered. Vanity — Or, injury, the vexation or oppression of other men....