Psalms 5:10

"For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue."

Key Reflection

This verse paints a vivid picture of hypocrisy and deceit. It suggests that the words of these individuals are false, their hearts corrupt, their speech harmful, and their flattery insincere, likening their tongue to an open tomb from which deadly things emerge.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Destroy thou them, O God -The word here rendered “destroy” is translated by Prof. Alexander “condemn” - “condemn them; literally, make them guilty; that is, recognize and treat them as such.” The Hebrew wordאשׁם'âsham, means to fail in duty, to transgress, to be guilty; in the Hiphil, the form used here, according to Gesenius, to “punish; and hence, to destroy,” (Lexicon) The idea in the mind of the psalmist seems to have been that he desired, since they were undoubtedly guilty, that God would regard and treat them “as such.” It is not that he wished that God would make them guilty; or that,

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