Psalms 52:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

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  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among lions: I lie among the children of men, that are set on fire: whose teeth are speares and arrowes, & their tongue a sharpe sworde.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they brag in their talke, & swords are in their lips: for, Who, say they, doeth heare?
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.
  • Ps 64:2-6 : 2 Hide me from the conspiracie of the wicked, and from the rage of the workers of iniquitie. 3 Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes. 4 To shoote at the vpright in secrete: they shoote at him suddenly, and feare not. 5 They encourage themselues in a wicked purpose: they commune together to lay snares priuilie, and say, Who shall see them? 6 They haue sought out iniquities, and haue accomplished that which they sought out, euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the depth of his heart.
  • Ps 109:2 : 2 For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.
  • Ps 120:2 : 2 Deliuer my soule, O Lord, from lying lippes, and from a deceitfull tongue.
  • Ps 140:2-3 : 2 Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually. 3 They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 6:16-19 : 16 These sixe things doeth the Lorde hate: yea, his soule abhorreth seuen: 17 The hautie eyes, a lying tongue, and the hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that imagineth wicked enterprises, feete that be swift in running to mischiefe, 19 A false witnesse that speaketh lyes, and him that rayseth vp contentions among brethren.
  • Prov 30:14 : 14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swordes, and their chawes as kniues to eate vp the afflicted out of the earth, and the poore from among men.
  • Jer 9:3-4 : 3 And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord. 4 Let euery one take heede of his neighbour, and trust you not in any brother: for euery brother will vse deceite, and euery friend will deale deceitfully,
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then sayde they, Come, and let vs imagine some deuice against Ieremiah: for the Lawe shal not perish from the Priest, nor counsell from the wise, nor the worde from the Prophet: come, and let vs smite him with the tongue, and let vs not giue heede to any of his words.
  • Matt 26:59 : 59 Nowe the chiefe Priestes and the Elders, and all the whole councill sought false witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death.
  • Acts 6:11-13 : 11 Then they suborned men, which saide, We haue heard him speake blasphemous wordes against Moses, and God. 12 Thus they mooued the people & the Elders, and the Scribes: and running vpon him, caught him, and brought him to the Councill, 13 And set forth false witnesses, which sayd, This man ceasseth not to speake blasphemous wordes against this holy place, and the Law.
  • Acts 24:1 : 1 Now after fiue dayes, Ananias the hie Priest came downe with the Elders, and with Tertullus a certaine oratour, which appeared before the Gouernour against Paul.
  • Acts 24:5 : 5 Certainely we haue found this man a pestilent fellowe, and a moouer of sedition among all the Iewes throughout the world, and a chiefe maintainer of the secte of the Nazarites:
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But haue cast from vs ye clokes of shame, and walke not in craftines, neither handle we the worde of God deceitfully: but in declaration of the trueth we approue our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God.
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such false apostles are deceitfull workers, and transforme themselues into the Apostles of Christ.
  • Rev 12:10 : 10 Then I heard a loude voyce in heauen, saying, Now is saluation, and strength, and the kingdome of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast downe, which accused them before our God day and night.

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    3Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah.

    4Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!

    5So shal God destroy thee for euer: he shal take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.

  • Ps 50:19-20
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    19Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

    20Thou sittest, and speakest against thy brother, and slanderest thy mothers sonne.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

  • Ps 52:1
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    1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. When Doeg the Edomite came and shewed Saul, and saide to him, Dauid is come to the house of Abimelech. Why boastest thou thy selfe in thy wickednesse, O man of power? the louing kindenesse of God indureth dayly.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.

  • Ps 120:3
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    3What doeth thy deceitfull tongue bring vnto thee? or what doeth it auaile thee?

  • Ps 140:2-3
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    2Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.

    3They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.

  • Ps 34:13
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    13Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lips, that they speake no guile.

  • Ps 64:3
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    3Which haue whette their tongue like a sword, and shot for their arrowes bitter wordes.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their heart imagineth destruction, and their lippes speake mischiefe.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 36:3-4
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    3The wordes of his mouth are iniquitie and deceit: hee hath left off to vnderstand and to doe good.

    4Hee imagineth mischiefe vpon his bed: he setteth himselfe vpon a way, that is not good, and doeth not abhorre euill.

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    28A false tongue hateth the afflicted, and a flattering mouth causeth ruine.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5And euery one wil deceiue his friende, and wil not speake the trueth: for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies, and take great paynes to do wickedly.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

    3The Lorde cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:

  • Ps 109:2
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    2For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth full of deceite are opened vpon me: they haue spoken to me with a lying tongue.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14Lewde things are in his heart: he imagineth euill at all times, and raiseth vp contentions.

  • Prov 12:18
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    18There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.

  • Isa 32:7
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    7For the weapons of the churle are wicked: hee deuiseth wicked counsels, to vndoe the poore with lying words: and to speake against the poore in iudgement.

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    4The wicked giueth heed to false lippes, and a lyer hearkeneth to the naughtie tongue.

  • Prov 12:20
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    20Deceite is in the heart of them that imagine euill: but to the counsellers of peace shall be ioye.

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    13Their throte is an open sepulchre: they haue vsed their tongues to deceit: the poyson of aspes is vnder their lippes.

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    20The froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a naughtie tongue, shall fall into euill.

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    21The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.

  • Prov 16:30
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    30He shutteth his eyes to deuise wickednes: he moueth his lippes, and bringeth euil to passe.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips: and let them be taken in their pride, euen for their periurie and lies, that they speake.

  • Prov 24:8
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    8Hee that imagineth to doe euill, men shall call him an autour of wickednes.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

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    12They also, that seeke after my life, laye snares, and they that go about to do me euil, talke wicked things and imagine deceite continually.

  • Ps 62:3-4
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    3How long wil ye imagine mischiefe against a man? ye shalbe all slaine: ye shalbe as a bowed wall, or as a wall shaken.

    4Yet they consult to cast him downe from his dignitie: their delight is in lies, they blesse with their mouthes, but curse with their hearts. Selah.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked practiseth against the iust, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

  • Ps 5:6
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    6Thou shalt destroy them that speake lyes: the Lorde will abhorre the bloodie man and deceitfull.

  • Job 20:12
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    12When wickednesse was sweete in his mouth, and he hid it vnder his tongue,

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    4On whome haue ye iested? vpon whome haue ye gaped and thrust out your tongue? are not ye rebellious children, and a false seede?

  • Ps 144:8
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    8Whose mouth talketh vanitie, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Prov 6:18
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    18An heart that imagineth wicked enterprises, feete that be swift in running to mischiefe,

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    12For the rich men thereof are full of crueltie, & the inhabitants thereof haue spoken lyes, and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouth.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.

  • Prov 25:18
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    18A man that beareth false witnes against his neighbour, is like an hammer and a sword, and a sharpe arrowe.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord.

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    2Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.