Psalms 58:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

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

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  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Hath the throne of iniquitie fellowship with thee, which forgeth wrong for a Lawe?
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Wo vnto them that decree wicked decrees, and write grieuous things,
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The way of the iust is righteousnesse: thou wilt make equall the righteous path of the iust.
  • Isa 59:4-6 : 4 No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, & speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth iniquitie. 5 They hatch cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders webbe: he that eateth of their egges, dieth, and that which is trode vpon, breaketh out into a serpent. 6 Their webbes shall be no garment, neither shall they couer themselues with their labours: for their workes are workes of iniquitie, & the worke of crueltie is in their handes.
  • Jer 22:16-17 : 16 When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde? 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 In thee haue they taken giftes to shed blood: thou hast taken vsurie and the encrease, and thou hast defrauded thy neighbours by extortion, & hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in the mids thereof are like wolues, rauening the praye to shed blood, and to destroy soules for their owne couetous lucre.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I sayd, Heare, I pray you, O heads of Iaakob, and yee princes of the house of Israel: should not ye knowe iudgement? 2 But they hate the good, and loue the euill: they plucke off their skinnes from them, & their flesh from their bones. 3 And they eate also the flesh of my people, & flay off their skinne from them, & they breake their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Heare this, I pray you, ye heades of the house of Iaakob, and princes of the house of Israel: they abhorre iudgement, and peruert all equitie. 10 They build vp Zion with blood, and Ierusalem with iniquitie. 11 The heads thereof iudge for rewardes, and the Priestes thereof teache for hyre, and the prophets thereof prophecie for money: yet wil they leane vpon the Lorde, and say, Is not the Lorde among vs? no euill can come vpon vs. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake bee plowed as a field, & Ierusalem shalbe an heape, and the mountaine of the house, as the hye places of the forest.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 Therefore wee count the proude blessed: euen they that worke wickednesse, are set vp, and they that tempt God, yea, they are deliuered.
  • John 11:47-53 : 47 Then gathered the hie Priests, & the Pharises a councill, and said, What shall we doe? For this man doeth many miracles. 48 If we let him thus alone, all men will beleeue in him, and the Romanes will come and take away both our place, and the nation. 49 Then one of them named Caiaphas, which was the hie Priest that same yere, said vnto them, Ye perceiue nothing at all, 50 Nor yet doe you consider that it is expedient for vs, that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. 51 This spake hee not of himselfe: but being hie Priest that same yere, he prophecied that Iesus should die for that nation: 52 And not for that nation onely, but that he shoulde gather together in one the children of God, which were scattered. 53 Then from that day foorth they consulted together, to put him to death.
  • Eccl 3:16 : 16 And moreouer I haue seene vnder the sunne the place of iudgement, where was wickednesse, and the place of iustice where was iniquitie.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended euill against thee, and imagined mischiefe, but they shall not preuaile.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 58:1
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    1 To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of Dauid on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3 For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquitie: your lips haue spoken lies & your tongue hath murmured iniquitie.

    4 No man calleth for iustice: no man contendeth for trueth: they trust in vanitie, & speake vaine things: they conceiue mischiefe, and bring foorth iniquitie.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1 Wo vnto them, that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it because their hande hath power.

    2 And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3 To make good for the euil of their hands, the prince asked, and the iudge iudgeth for a reward: therefore the great man he speaketh out the corruption of his soule: so they wrapt it vp.

  • Isa 59:6-7
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    6 Their webbes shall be no garment, neither shall they couer themselues with their labours: for their workes are workes of iniquitie, & the worke of crueltie is in their handes.

    7 Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.

  • Prov 6:18
    75%

    18 An heart that imagineth wicked enterprises, feete that be swift in running to mischiefe,

  • Ps 26:10
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    10 In whose handes is wickednes, and their right hand is full of bribes.

  • Ps 64:6
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    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 58:3
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    3 The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17 But thine eyes and thine heart are but only for thy couetousnesse, and for to sheade innocent blood, and for oppression, and for destruction, euen to doe this.

  • Ps 28:3-4
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    3 Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts.

    4 Reward them according to their deedes, and according to the wickednes of their inuentions: recompense them after the woorke of their handes: render them their reward.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16 For their feete runne to euill, & make haste to shed blood.

  • Mic 6:10-12
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    10 Are yet the treasures of wickednes in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure, that is abominable?

    11 Shall I iustifie the wicked balances, and the bag of deceitfull weightes?

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

  • Job 6:27
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    27 Ye make your wrath to fall vpon the fatherlesse, and dig a pit for your friende.

  • Isa 57:4-5
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    4 On whome haue ye iested? vpon whome haue ye gaped and thrust out your tongue? are not ye rebellious children, and a false seede?

    5 Inflamed with idoles vnder euery greene tree? and sacrificing the children in the valleys vnder the tops of the rocks?

  • Isa 59:13
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    13 In trespassing and lying against the Lorde, and wee haue departed away from our God, and haue spoken of crueltie and rebellion, conceiuing and vttering out of the heart false matters.

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

  • Jer 4:18
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    18 Thy wayes and thine inuentions haue procured thee these things, such is thy wickednesse: therefore it shall be bitter, therefore it shall perce vnto thine heart.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring they breake out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15 Their feete are swift to shead blood.

  • Amos 5:7
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    7 They turne iudgement to wormewood, and leaue off righteousnes in the earth.

  • Ps 50:19
    72%

    19 Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

  • Job 36:17
    72%

    17 But thou art ful of the iudgement of the wicked, though iudgement and equitie maintaine all things.

  • Job 11:14
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    14 If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.

  • Prov 11:18
    72%

    18 The wicked worketh a deceitful worke: but hee that soweth righteousnes, shall receiue a sure rewarde.

  • Eccl 8:11
    71%

    11 Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to doe euill.

  • Isa 3:9
    71%

    9 The triall of their countenance testifieth against them, yea, they declare their sinnes as Sodom, they hide them not. Wo be vnto their soules: for they haue rewarded euil vnto themselues.

  • Ps 7:14
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    14 Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye.

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

  • Ezek 22:13
    71%

    13 Beholde, therefore I haue smitten mine hands vpon thy couetousnesse, that thou hast vsed, and vpon the blood, which hath bene in the middes of thee.

  • Isa 58:4
    71%

    4 Beholde, ye fast to strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickednesse: ye shall not fast as ye doe to day, to make your voyce to be heard aboue.

  • Hos 10:13
    71%

    13 But you haue plowed wickednesse: ye haue reaped iniquitie: you haue eaten the fruite of lies: because thou didest trust in thine owne waies, and in the multitude of thy strong men,

  • Job 15:35
    71%

    35 For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.

  • Ps 52:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • Job 10:3
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    3 Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?

  • Matt 15:19
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    19 For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.

  • Ps 10:15
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    15 Breake thou the arme of the wicked and malicious: searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none.

  • Isa 1:15
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    15 And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood.

  • Prov 4:17
    71%

    17 For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

  • Hos 6:8
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    8 Gilead is a citie of them that worke iniquitie, and is polluted with blood.

  • Amos 6:3
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    3 Ye that put farre away the euill day, and approch to the seate of iniquitie?

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