Discovery BoxPsalms 120:3 
Context120:3 How will he severely punish you,
you deceptive talker? 1
Psalms 10:7
Context10:7 His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; 2
his tongue injures and destroys. 3
Psalms 34:13
Context34:13 Then make sure you don’t speak evil words 4
or use deceptive speech! 5
Psalms 109:2
Context109:2 For they say cruel and deceptive things to me;
they lie to me. 6
Psalms 119:118
Context119:118 You despise 7 all who stray from your statutes,
for they are deceptive and unreliable. 8
1 tn Heb “What will he give to you, and what will he add to you, O tongue of deception?” The psalmist addresses his deceptive enemies. The
2 tn Heb “[with] a curse his mouth is full, and lies and injury.”
3 tn Heb “under his tongue are destruction and wickedness.” The words translated “destruction and wickedness” are also paired in Ps 90:10. They also appear in proximity in Pss 7:14 and 55:10.
4 tn Heb “guard your tongue from evil.”
5 tn Heb “and your lips from speaking deception.”
6 tn Heb “for a mouth of evil and a mouth of deceit against me they open, they speak with me [with] a tongue of falsehood.”
7 tn The Hebrew verb סָלָה (salah, “to disdain”) occurs only here and in Lam 1:15. Cognate usage in Aramaic and Akkadian, as well as Lam 1:15, suggest it may have a concrete nuance of “to throw away.”
8 tn Heb “for their deceit [is] falsehood.”
