Psalm 62:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Consult

Acts 4:16

Delight

Bless

Psalm 28:3

Psalm 55:21

Luke 20:20

Inwardly

General references

Acts 24:9

Bible References

Consult

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate on a vain thing?

But when Herod the king heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Then the Pharisees left and took counsel that they might entangle Him in words.

Then the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, assembled together to the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

And it becoming early morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death.

Then the chief priests and Pharisees gathered a sanhedrin, and said, What can we do? For this man does many miracles.

saying, What shall we do to these men? For that indeed a notable miracle has been done by them is plain to all those dwelling in Jerusalem. And we cannot deny it.

Delight

You love evil more than good, and lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.

I hate and despise lying; but I love Your Law.

a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

The righteous hates lying, but the wicked one is odious and acts shamefully.

They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.

You are of the Devil as father, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.

But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie.

Bless

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts.

The butterings of his mouth were forked, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

And they watched and sent forth spies, pretending themselves to be righteous men, so that they might seize upon a word of His, that they might deliver Him in this way to the power and authority of the governor.

Inwardly

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part You shall make me to know wisdom.

And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the platter clean, but your inward part is full of plunder and wickedness.

For I delight in the Law of God according to the inward man;

General references

And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.