Psalm 144:8 {143:8}
Good News Translation
who never tell the truth and lie even under oath.

New Revised Standard Version
whose mouths speak lies, and whose right hands are false.

Contemporary English Version
of those lying foreigners who never tell the truth.

New American Bible
Their mouths speak untruth; their right hands are raised in lying oaths.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

mouth

Psalm 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow.

Psalm 12:2 They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

Psalm 41:6 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.

Psalm 62:4 But they have thought to cast away my price; I ran in thirst: they blessed with their mouth, but cursed with their heart.

Psalm 109:2,3 O God, be not thou silent in my praise: for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful man is opened against me. . . .

Isaiah 59:5-7 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk. . . .

their right hand

Isaiah 44:20 Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

Matthew 5:30 And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body go into hell.

Revelation 13:16,17 And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or on their foreheads: . . .

Context
Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock
7Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children: 8Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.9To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.…
Cross References
Genesis 14:22
And he answered him: I lift up my hand to the Lord God the most high, the possessor of heaven and earth,

Deuteronomy 32:40
I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

Psalm 12:2
They have spoken vain things, every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.

Psalm 41:6
And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.

Psalm 106:26
And he lifted up his hand over them: to overthrow them in the desert;

Isaiah 44:20
Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

Psalm 144:7
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