I said in my alarm, “All people are liars.”
Parallel translations
- WEB I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
- KJV 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.”
- 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 3:4May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”
- Jer 9:4–5“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
- Ps 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
- Ps 62:9Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
- 1 Sam 27:1David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”
- 2 Kgs 4:16He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”
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