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 have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him,

Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;

And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;

the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, 'What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

saying, 'What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem is manifest, and we are not able to deny it;

Delight

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate it, Thy law I have loved.

Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.

With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.

Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

Bless

Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.

And, having watched him, they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,

Inwardly

For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart is mischiefs, An open grave is their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.

And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

General references

and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.