Psalms 59:12

King James Version 1611 (Original)

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

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  • Prov 12:13 : 13 The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
  • Prov 18:7 : 7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
  • Ps 10:2 : 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
  • Ps 120:3-4 : 3 What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. 10 Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
  • Prov 6:2 : 2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
  • Prov 11:6 : 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
  • Ps 64:7-8 : 7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
  • Ps 109:17-18 : 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
  • Matt 27:63 : 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
  • Luke 23:5 : 5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
  • Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

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  • Ps 140:9-10
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    9As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

    10Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

  • Ps 59:13
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    13Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

    9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

    10Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • Rom 3:13-14
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    13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

  • Ps 59:11
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    11Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

  • Ps 12:2-4
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    2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

    3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

    4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

  • Ps 62:4
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    4They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Ps 140:3
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    3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

  • Ps 64:8
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    8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  • Ps 109:2
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    2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

  • Isa 59:13
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    13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Isa 59:3
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    3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

  • Jer 18:23
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    23Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

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    24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

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    20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.

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    6Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

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    2For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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    3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

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    6Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;

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    11But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

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    25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

  • Lam 3:65
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    65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

  • Ps 69:22
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    22Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

  • Ps 69:27
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    27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Ps 109:15
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    15Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

  • Hos 4:8
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    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

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    15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

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    3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.