Psalms 78:36

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But they deceived Him with their mouths and lied to Him with their tongues.

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  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'
  • Isa 57:11 : 11 Whom did you dread and fear, that you have been untruthful, and have not remembered me or taken it to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?
  • Deut 5:28-29 : 28 The LORD heard your words when you spoke to me, and He said to me, 'I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken. 29 Oh, that their hearts would always fear Me and keep all My commands, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
  • Ps 18:44 : 44 You deliver me from the strife of the people; You make me the head of nations; a people I had not known serves me.
  • Ps 106:12-13 : 12 Then they believed His words; they sang His praise. 13 But they quickly forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel.

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    2Help, LORD, for the godly have vanished; the faithful have disappeared from among humanity.

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  • 4How long will you assault a man? Would you all throw him down—like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

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    5You live in the midst of deceit, and because of deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

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    2An oracle of transgression speaks to the wicked within his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.

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    56But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep His decrees.

    57They turned back and were disloyal like their ancestors; they became twisted like a deceitful bow.

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  • 13"Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit." "The venom of vipers is under their lips."

  • 19You let your mouth speak evil, and your tongue devises deceit.

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    17But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling against the Most High in the dry wasteland.

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