Psalms 55:11

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

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  • Jer 5:26-27 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
  • Ps 109:2-3 : 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their 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.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 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.
  • Ezek 22:1-9 : 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood. 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow. 8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. 9 In 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. 10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. 11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. 12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Matt 26:4 : 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 55:9-10
    2 verses
    89%

    9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

    10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

  • Mic 6:10-12
    3 verses
    78%

    10Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?

    11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

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

  • 1Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

  • 7As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

  • 21How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

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    10When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

    11By the blessing of the uight the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

  • Isa 59:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

    15Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

  • Jer 9:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • 12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

  • 26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • 16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

  • 3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • 1Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

  • 11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.

  • 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.

  • 27Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

  • 12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

  • Zeph 3:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

    4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

    5The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

  • Prov 1:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

    21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

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

  • 12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

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

  • Jer 5:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.

  • 15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

  • 2Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

  • 12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

  • 11Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

  • 8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

  • 15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

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

  • 12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

  • 6Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

  • 8The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

  • 15Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • 10Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

  • 15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • 15What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

  • 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.

  • 8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.