Psalms 78:36

American Standard Version (1901)

But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.

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  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh [unto me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught [them] ;
  • Isa 57:11 : 11 And of whom hast thou been afraid and in fear, that thou liest, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of long time, and thou fearest me not?
  • Deut 5:28-29 : 28 And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken. 29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
  • Ps 18:44 : 44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.
  • Ps 106:12-13 : 12 Then believed they his words; They sang his praise. 13 They soon forgat his works; They waited not for his counsel,
  • Hos 11:12 : 12 Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.

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

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

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

  • 28 A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

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

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

    6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

  • 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • Ps 36:2-3
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    2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, That his iniquity will not be found out and be hated.

    3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

  • 12 [ 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.

  • 8 Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • 30 They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,

  • Ps 78:56-57
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    56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;

    57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

  • 3 And 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.

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

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

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

  • 22 Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; But they that deal truly are his delight.

  • 35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.

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

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

  • 8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

  • Ps 52:3-4
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    3 Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. {{Selah

    4 Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

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

  • Ps 120:2-3
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    2 Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, [And] from a deceitful tongue.

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

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

  • 24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips; But he layeth up deceit within him:

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

  • Ps 78:17-18
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    17 Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

    18 And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

  • 4 Against 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,

  • 32 For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.

  • 5 A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps.

  • 10 They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;

  • 19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a lying tongue is but for a moment.

  • 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

  • 33 Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

  • 24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,

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

  • 40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

  • 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

  • 20 For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

  • 5 He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

  • 11 But 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.

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