Psalm 109:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

The mouth

Matthew 26:59

With

Acts 6:13

Bible References

The mouth

For I have heard the slander and whispering of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they schemed together against me,
They plotted to take away my life.

Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man appointed as the king’s agent to listen to you.”

Then, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.

The heart of the righteous thinks carefully about how to answer [in a wise and appropriate and timely way],
But the [babbling] mouth of the wicked pours out malevolent things.

Now the chief priests and the whole Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) tried to get false witnesses to testify against Jesus, so that they might [have a reason to] put Him to death.

With

What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you,
You deceitful tongue?—

A proud look [the attitude that makes one overestimate oneself and discount others], a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,

Truthful lips will be established forever,
But a lying tongue is [credited] only for a moment.

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.

They presented false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and the Law [of Moses];