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Psalms 10:7 · World English Bible

Psalms 10:7 Meaning His Mouth Is Full of Cursing

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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What does Psalms 10:7 mean?

What fills the mouth reveals what has filled the heart. Cursing, deceit, fraud, these are not accidents of speech but the overflow of a soul that has organized itself around getting rather than giving.

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What fills the mouth reveals what has filled the heart. Cursing, deceit, fraud, these are not accidents of speech but the overflow of a soul that has organized itself around getting rather than giving. Under the tongue sits mischief, ready and waiting, because the inner life was built to harm.

Speech is diagnostic. Listen long enough to anyone and the structure underneath comes out. The man whose every word twists toward advantage has already decided what he is, long before you meet him. Watch what people do with their words, and you will know what they intend to do with you.

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Live Psalms 10:7 today

  1. Read back your last ten messages and look at the shape of them. Are you mostly reporting what is true, or mostly angling?
  2. In your next conversation, say one thing that costs you a little advantage because it is accurate.
  3. When you are stressed and a sharp line is ready in your mouth, swallow it and say the plain version instead.

If someone judged me only by my words this week, what would they conclude I want?

The same truth in other traditions

Analects

Listen to how a person speaks and you learn what they are made of. Words are the outside of the inside.

Dhammapada

Speech comes from the mind the way water comes from its source. A heart set on getting cannot produce clean sentences for long.

Stoicism · Epictetus

What a person says reveals the ruling principle they live by. Watch the pattern, not the single polished line.

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