“For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.”
This verse develops the psalm's theological themes of covenant relationship, divine justice, moral responsibility, and the dynamics of faith. It articulates the speaker's experience and invites engagement with fundamental questions about God's character, providence, and the appropriate human response to divine revelation in creation, law, and history. The verse situates particular human experience within the larger framework of God's redemptive purposes and universal sovereignty.
Church Fathers on Psalms 5:9
1. The title of the Psalm is, “For her who receives the inheritance.” The Church then is signified, who receives for her inheritance eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ; that she may possess God Himself, in cleaving to whom she may be blessed, according to that, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth.” Matthew 5:5 What earth, but that of which it is said, “You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living”? And again more clearly, “The Lord is the…
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