Psalms 59:12

American Standard Version (1901)

[ For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.

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  • Prov 12:13 : 13 In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil man; But the righteous shall come out of trouble.
  • Prov 18:7 : 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, And his lips are the snare of his soul.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
  • Ps 10:2 : 2 In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
  • Ps 120:3-4 : 3 What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them. 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.
  • Prov 6:2 : 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
  • Prov 11:6 : 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.
  • Ps 64:7-8 : 7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
  • Ps 109:17-18 : 17 Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him. 18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 And all the people answered and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
  • Matt 27:63 : 63 saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, After three days I rise again.
  • Luke 23:5 : 5 But they were the more urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, and beginning from Galilee even unto this place.
  • Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day shalt thou not be put to shame for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proudly exulting ones, and thou shalt no more be haughty in my holy mountain.

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  • Ps 140:9-10
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    9As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

    10Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.

  • Ps 59:13
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    13Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more: And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, Unto the ends of the earth. {{Selah

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

    9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.

    10Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

  • Ps 59:11
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    11Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

  • Ps 12:2-4
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    2They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

    3Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great things;

    4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: Who is lord over us?

  • Ps 62:4
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    4They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. {{Selah

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • Ps 140:3
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    3They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. {{Selah

  • Ps 64:8
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    8So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.

  • Ps 109:2
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    2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

  • Isa 59:13
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    13transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Isa 59:3
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    3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

  • Jer 18:23
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    23Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.

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    24Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

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    20For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take [thy name] in vain.

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    6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

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    19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

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    2For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

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    3Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

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    6[ Let] the high praises of God [be] in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand;

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    11But the king shall rejoice in God: Every one that sweareth by him shall glory; For the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

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    25Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

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    65Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

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    22Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap.

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    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

  • Ps 69:27
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    27Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness.

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    9The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

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    15Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

  • Hos 4:8
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    8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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    8Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

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    15Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

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    3What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?

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    2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.