Isaiah 59:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Isa 1:15 : 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Isa 1:21 : 21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  • Jer 2:34 : 34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
  • Ezek 7:23 : 23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
  • Hos 7:3 : 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
  • Hos 7:13 : 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: tugh I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
  • Mic 3:10-12 : 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
  • Matt 27:4 : 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
  • Ezek 13:8 : 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 22:2 : 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
  • Ezek 35:6 : 6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
  • Jer 7:8 : 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
  • Jer 9:3-6 : 3 And 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. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

  • 4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Isa 59:12-14
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    12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

    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.

    14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

  • 2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Isa 1:15-16
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    15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

    16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

  • 17A oud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

  • Isa 59:6-7
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    6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

  • Rom 3:13-15
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    13Their that 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:

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood:

  • Job 15:5-6
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    5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

    6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

  • 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • 12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their li let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

  • 8Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

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

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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.

  • Isa 3:8-9
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    8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

    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.

  • 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,

  • 14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

  • 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

    6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

  • 13Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

  • 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.

  • Ps 52:2-3
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    73%

    2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

    3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

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    6Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

  • 10In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

  • 10They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • 7For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • 18Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

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

  • 4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  • 17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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

  • 3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

  • 9In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

  • 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

  • 13Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

  • 4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

  • 6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

  • 3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy li from speaking guile.

  • 3Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.