Psalms 17:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

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  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.
  • Job 15:27 : 27 Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
  • Ps 119:70 : 70 Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.
  • Ps 123:4 : 4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.
  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
  • Matt 13:15 : 15 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
  • Acts 28:27 : 27 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;
  • Rev 13:5-6 : 5 And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months. 6 And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven.
  • Ps 12:3-4 : 3 The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord. 4 They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.
  • Exod 15:9 : 9 Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
  • Ps 73:7-9 : 7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire. 8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. 9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

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  • Ps 73:6-9
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    6 For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

    7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

    8 Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

    9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

    12 Like a lion desiring its food, and like a young lion waiting in secret places.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Ps 17:9
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    9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • Ps 10:2-3
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    2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

    3 For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

  • Job 15:27
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    27 Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

  • Ps 59:7
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    7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

  • Ps 140:9
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    9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18 Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

  • Job 16:10
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    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Ps 12:2-4
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    74%

    2 Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

    3 The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

    4 They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

    10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

  • Ps 119:70
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    70 Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

  • Ps 94:4
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    4 Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13 Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

    14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

  • Ps 109:2
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    2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Ps 135:17
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    17 They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

  • Zeph 2:10
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    10 This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

  • Ps 140:3
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    3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

  • Prov 14:3
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    3 In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28 They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Ps 35:25
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    25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

  • Ps 78:30
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    30 But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

  • Ps 49:6
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    6 Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

  • Ps 64:5
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    5 They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

  • Job 41:15
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    15 His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

  • Job 17:4
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    4 You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18 And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • Prov 28:25
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    25 He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.

  • Ps 35:20-21
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    20 For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

    21 Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

  • Job 15:35
    70%

    35 Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

  • Prov 1:31
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    31 So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.

  • Ps 10:10
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    10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.