I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Parallel translations
- WEB I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
- BSB In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”
- NKJV I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
- NASB I said in my alarm, “All people are liars.”
- NLT In my anxiety I cried out to you, “These people are all liars!”
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Quick answer
In his alarm the psalmist concluded that all men are liars. It matters because human disappointment drives us to rely on God's unfailing truth.
Overview
Spoken in distress, this confession registers how human help and promises fail, in contrast to God's faithfulness already praised. It may reflect a hasty over-statement, yet it rightly redirects trust away from people to God alone. Only in the Lord, and supremely in Christ who is the truth, is there a wholly trustworthy refuge.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Rom 3:4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
- Jer 9:4–5Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
- Ps 31:22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
- Ps 62:9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
- 1 Sam 27:1And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
- 2 Kgs 4:16And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.
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