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 rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?

When King Herod heard this he was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him.

Then the Pharisees went out and planned together to entrap him with his own words.

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

saying, "What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot deny it.

Delight

You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)

I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

The righteous person hates anything false, but the wicked person acts in shameful disgrace.

The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Although they fully know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!

Bless

Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!

His words are as smooth as butter, but he harbors animosity in his heart. His words seem softer than oil, but they are really like sharp swords.

Then they watched him carefully and sent spies who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to take advantage of what he might say so that they could deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

Inwardly

For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

For I delight in the law of God in my inner being.

General references

The Jews also joined in the verbal attack, claiming that these things were true.