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Psalm 144:8
whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
6Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
7Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,
8whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
10You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
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Deceit reaches from the mouth to the right hand, making falsehood part of the danger David faces as he asks God for rescue.
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Isaiah 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the …The right hand appears in both passages: associated with falsehood in the psalm and with God's righteousness and help in Isaiah.
Psalm 12:2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.Both passages describe deceitful speech, with Psalm 12 naming lies between neighbors and flattery from a double heart.
Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”Both associate the right hand with a lie, though Isaiah describes a deceived person and David describes deceitful enemies.
Psalm 41:6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.False speech marks the threatening people in both psalms; Psalm 41 describes a visitor who carries harmful talk outside.
Psalm 62:4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.Both describe enemies whose speech cannot be trusted; Psalm 62 exposes the contrast between spoken blessing and inward cursing.
Psalm 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.Both locate deceit in the mouth, with Psalm 10 also naming cursing and oppression.
Isaiah 59:5–7They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.The shared thread is harmful conduct: the psalm names deceit, while Isaiah portrays danger through eggs that bring death.
Matthew 5:30If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, …Both mention the right hand in connection with evil, though Jesus addresses personal wrongdoing and David describes deceitful enemies.
Genesis 14:22Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,Both mention a hand alongside speech: David describes falsehood, while Abram speaks of lifting his hand to God.
Revelation 13:16–17He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands or on their foreheads;The shared detail is the right hand; Revelation describes receiving a mark, while the psalm associates the hand with falsehood.
Deuteronomy 32:40For I lift up my hand to heaven and declare, as I live forever,Both link a hand with speech; the psalm describes human falsehood, while Deuteronomy records God's declaration of his eternal life.
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David names deceit without pretending it is harmless. His plea for rescue turns toward God, whose hand he seeks above the hands that threaten him.
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