Psalms 55:21 · WEB
“His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.”
— Psalms 55:21
Speaker
David
Era
Kingdom (~1000 BC)
Emotion
grieving
Type
psalm
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
deceptionfalse wordsbetrayal
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