Verse 5

You love evil more than good, and falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:22 : 22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
  • Ps 27:13 : 13 I am confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree. 36 Yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched for him, he could not be found.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 Cast your burden upon the LORD, and He will sustain you. He will never let the righteous be shaken.
  • Ps 64:7-9 : 7 They devise unjust schemes, saying, 'We have perfected a cunning plan!'; truly the inward mind and heart of man are deep. 8 But God will shoot them with an arrow; suddenly, they will be struck down. 9 Their own tongues will cause their downfall; all who see them will shake their heads. 10 All mankind will fear and proclaim the works of God, and they will ponder what He has done.
  • Ps 116:9 : 9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
  • Ps 120:2-4 : 2 LORD, deliver my soul from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. 3 What will He give you, and what more will He do to you, deceitful tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of a warrior, along with burning coals of the broom tree.
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 Do not grant the desires of the wicked, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, lest they exalt themselves. Selah. 10 May the heads of those who surround me be covered with the trouble their lips have caused. 11 May burning coals fall upon them; may they be thrown into the fire, into deep pits, never to rise again.
  • Job 18:14 : 14 He is uprooted from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
  • Job 20:6-7 : 6 Even if his greatness rises to the heavens and his head reaches to the clouds, 7 he will perish forever like his own waste; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?'
  • Ps 7:14-16 : 14 He has prepared His deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts. 15 Behold, the wicked conceives evil, is pregnant with mischief, and gives birth to lies. 16 They dig a pit and hollow it out, only to fall into the hole they have made.
  • Prov 12:19 : 19 Truthful speech endures forever, but a lying tongue lasts only for a moment.
  • Prov 19:5 : 5 A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will not escape.
  • Prov 19:9 : 9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who breathes out lies will perish.
  • Isa 22:19 : 19 I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, "I will not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on humanity or be with those who dwell in the world of the dead."
  • Luke 16:27-28 : 27 He said, 'Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so they will not also come to this place of torment.'
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.