Jeremiah 9:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym.

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  • Ps 28:3 : 3 Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.
  • Ps 12:2 : 2 Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde. 4 That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect: they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not.
  • Ps 120:3 : 3 What doth a deceiptfull tongue vnto thee? what good bryngeth it thee?
  • Prov 26:24-26 : 24 An enemie wyll dissemble with his lippes, and layeth vp deceipt in his heart. 25 But when he speaketh fayre, beleue hym not: for there are seuen abhominations in his heart. 26 Hatred maye be couered by deceipt: but the malice therof shalbe shewed before the whole congregation.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are found wicked persons, that priuily lay snares and wayte for men, to take them and destroy them.
  • 2 Sam 3:27 : 27 And when Abner was come againe to Hebron, Ioab toke him asyde in the gate to speake with him peaceably, and smote him vnder the fyft ribbe, that he died for the blood of Asahel his brother,
  • 2 Sam 20:9-9 : 9 And Ioab saide to Amasa: Art thou in health my brother? And Ioab toke Amasa by ye beard with the right hand, to kisse him. 10 But Amasa toke no heede to the sword that was in Ioabs hand: for therewith he smote him in the fyst rybbe & shed out his bowels to the grounde, and thrust at him no more, & he dyed: So Ioab and Abisai his brother folowed after Seba the sonne of Bichri.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away from them
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe.
  • Matt 26:48-49 : 48 But he that betrayed him, gaue them a token, saying: Whomsoeuer I kysse, that same is he, holde hym fast. 49 And foorthwith, he came to Iesus, and sayde, hayle maister: and kyssed hym.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 9:3-6
    4 verses
    83%

    3 They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.

    4 Yea, one must kepe hym selfe from another, no man may safely trust his owne brother: for one brother vndermindeth another, one neighbour beguileth another.

    5 Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe.

    6 Thou sittest in the middes of a deceiptfull people, which for very dissembling falshood wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.

    4 That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect: they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not.

  • Ps 5:9
    79%

    9 For no trueth is in their mouth, their inwarde partes are very wickednesse: their throte is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 35:20
    78%

    20 For they speake not peace: but they imagine deceiptfull wordes agaynst them that liue quietly in the lande.

  • Ps 10:7
    78%

    7 His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.

  • Ps 55:21
    76%

    21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.

  • Ps 52:2
    76%

    2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.

  • Ps 140:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2 Who in heart imagine mischiefes: and set forwarde to warre euery day.

    3 They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah.

  • Ps 12:2
    75%

    2 Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.

  • Prov 25:18
    75%

    18 Whoso beareth false witnesse against his neighbour, he is a very club, a sworde, and a sharpe arrowe.

  • Prov 24:2
    75%

    2 For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.

  • Mic 6:12
    75%

    12 For the riche men thereof are full of crueltie, and the inhabitantes thereof haue spoken lyes, and haue deceitfull tongues in their mouthes.

  • Ps 11:2
    75%

    2 For lo, the vngodly haue bende their bowe: and nocked their arrowes with the string, redy to shoote priuily at them whiche are vpright in heart.

  • Rom 3:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13 Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes.

    14 Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.

    15 Their feete are swyft to shed blood.

  • Ps 59:7
    74%

    7 Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?

  • Ps 109:2
    74%

    2 For the mouth of the vngodly and the mouth of the deceiptfull is opened vpon me: they haue spoken against me with a false tongue.

  • Prov 12:20
    74%

    20 Deceipt is in the heart of them that imagine euyll: but to the counsaylers of peace shalbe ioy.

  • Ps 64:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 But the Lorde wyll sodenly shoote at them with a swyft arrowe: their plagues shalbe apparaunt.

    8 Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away from them

  • Prov 1:18
    73%

    18 So these lay wayte for the blood of them, and lye priuily for their liues.

  • Jer 9:9
    73%

    9 Should I not punishe them for these thinges, saith the Lorde? or shoulde I not be auenged of any suche people as this?

  • Ps 73:9
    73%

    9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde.

  • Ps 59:12
    73%

    12 The wordes of their lippes be the sinne of their mouth: O let them be taken in their pryde, for they speake nothing but curses and lies.

  • Prov 26:24
    72%

    24 An enemie wyll dissemble with his lippes, and layeth vp deceipt in his heart.

  • Ps 38:12
    72%

    12 They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares for me: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation.

    15 But their sworde shal go thorow their owne heart: & their bow shalbe broken.

  • Jer 8:11
    72%

    11 Neuerthelesse, they heale the hurt of my people very slenderly, saying, peace, peace: where there is no peace at all.

  • Ps 50:19
    72%

    19 Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse: and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceipt.

  • Jer 4:10
    72%

    10 Then sayde I: Oh Lorde God, hast thou then deceaued this people and Hierusalem, saying, Ye shall haue peace: and nowe the sworde goeth through their lyues?

  • Jer 5:26
    72%

    26 For among my people are found wicked persons, that priuily lay snares and wayte for men, to take them and destroy them.

  • Ps 28:3
    72%

    3 Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.

  • Ps 120:3
    72%

    3 What doth a deceiptfull tongue vnto thee? what good bryngeth it thee?

  • Mic 3:5
    72%

    5 Thus saith the Lorde concerning the prophetes that deceaue my people and bite them with their teeth, and crye peace: but if a man put not into their mouthes, they prepare warre against him.

  • Prov 6:14
    71%

    14 He is euer imagining mischiefe and frowardnes in his heart, and causeth discorde.

  • Prov 26:26
    71%

    26 Hatred maye be couered by deceipt: but the malice therof shalbe shewed before the whole congregation.

  • Ps 62:4
    71%

    4 They deuise only howe to thrust him from his promotion: they delight in a lye, they blesse with their mouth, and curse with their heart. Selah.

  • Ps 21:11
    71%

    11 For they intended mischiefe agaynst thee, and imagined a craftie deuice: but they coulde not bring it to passe.

  • Prov 26:28
    71%

    28 A lying tongue hateth the afflicted: and a flattering mouth worketh mischiefe.

  • Ps 140:9
    71%

    9 Let the labour of his owne lippe couer him: who is head of them that compasse me about.

  • Zech 8:17
    71%

    17 And let none of you imagine euil in his heart against his neighbour, and loue no false othes: for all these are ye thinges that I hate, saith the Lorde.

  • Hos 7:6
    71%

    6 For whyles they lye in wayte, they haue made redye their heart lyke an ouen, their baker sleepeth all night, in the morning it burneth as a flambe of fire.

  • Prov 17:4
    71%

    4 A wicked body geueth heede to false lippes, and a lyer geueth eare to a deceiptfull tongue.