In fear of You I will worship toward1 Your holy temple.
Make Your way straight before my face.
Their inward part is destruction;
aTheir throat is an open tomb;
They flatter with their tongue.
Let them fall by their own counsels;
Cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions,
For they have rebelled against You.
Let them ever shout for joy, because You1 defend them;
Let those also who love Your name
Be joyful in You.
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Psalms 5:9
No faithfulness in their mouth - They make professions of friendship; but all is hollow and deceitful: "They flatter with their tongue."
Very wickedness - Their heart is full of all kinds of depravity.
Their throat is an open sepulcher - It is continually gaping for the dead; and sends forth effluvia destructive to the living. I fear that this is too true a picture of the whole human race, totally corrupt within, and abominable without. The heart is the center and spring of this corruption; and the words and actions of men, which proceed from this source, will send out incessant streams of various impurity; and thus they continue till the grace of God changes and purifies the heart.
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