Look at Psalm 12:1 – 2. The David’s despair is deep. Why? His perception is that godliness, godly men have ceased in his domain. Then he describes what godless men look like:
Lord deliver me from this.
- They speak falsehood to one another – the word “falsehood” could and is translated emptiness, vanity, and deceit, in other places. Think of that. I have a picture of a person on a stage speaking to a crowd, his lips are moving, but there is no sound coming out of his mouth, emptiness. Frankly, there have been speakers I have heard, well, that would have been an improvement.
- They speak with flattering lips – they speak to manipulate, to get what they want, to make people like them, or to get a result that they think is important. Another, example of emptiness.
- They speak with a double heart – they speak with a lack of integrity. What they are saying does not align with what they believe. They speak to look better than they are. They speak to deceive.
Lord deliver me from this.
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