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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 15 February 2016
Psalms 120:2
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
120:2. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips. It will need divine power to save a man from these deadly instruments. Lips are soft, but when they are lying lips they suck away the life of character and are as murderous as razors. Lips should never be red with the blood of honest people’s reputes, nor salved with malicious falsehoods. The soul, the life of the man, is endangered by lying lips. The faculty of speech becomes a curse when it is degraded into a mean weapon for smiting people behind their backs. We need to be delivered from slander by the Lord’s restraint upon wicked tongues, or else to be delivered out of it by having our good name cleared from the liar’s calumny.
And from a deceitful tongue. This is rather worse than downright falsehood. Those who fawn and flatter, and all the while have enmity in their hearts, are horrible beings; they are the offspring of the devil, and he works in them after his own deceptive nature. It should be a warning to liars and deceivers when they see that all good people pray against them, and that even bad people are afraid of them. From gossips, talebearers, writers of anonymous letters, forgers of newspaper paragraphs, and all sorts of lie-mongers, good Lord deliver us!
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