Psalms 55:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

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  • Jer 5:26-27 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets 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 have become great, and grown 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 surrounded me with words of hatred and fought against me without cause.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD. 4 Take heed every one of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, 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 to me, saying, 2 Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, you shall show her all her abominations. 3 Then say, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in its midst, that her time may come, and makes idols against herself to defile herself. 4 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and have defiled yourself with your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore I have made you a reproach to the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. 5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, who are infamous and much vexed. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one, were in you using their power to shed blood. 7 In you they have treated father and mother with contempt: in your midst they have dealt oppressively with the stranger: in you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow. 8 You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths. 9 In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness. 10 In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness: in you they have humbled her who was set apart for impurity. 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter. 12 In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken usury and increase, and you have greedily gained from your neighbors by extortion, and have forgotten Me, says the Lord GOD.
  • Matt 26:4 : 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by stealth, and kill him.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

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

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

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

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  • Nah 3:1
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    1Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery; the prey does not depart;

  • Jer 6:7
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    7As a fountain casts out her waters, so she casts out her wickedness; violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.

  • Isa 1:21
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    21How the faithful city has become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

  • Prov 11:10-11
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    10When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there is celebration.

    11By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

  • Isa 59:13-15
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    13In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

    14And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

    15Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

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

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  • Isa 24:12
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    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Rom 3:16
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    16'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

  • Ps 28:3
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    3Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

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

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    11There is one come out from you, who imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.

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    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

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    12Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

  • Zeph 3:3-5
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    3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they do not gnaw the bones until the morning.

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

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  • Prov 1:20-21
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    20Wisdom cries out outside; she raises her voice in the streets;

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  • Ps 55:15
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    15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

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    12Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

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

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    15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his hand.

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    12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it. Neither was it one who hated me that exalted himself against me; then I would have hidden from him,

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    15Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

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

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    12For I know your many 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.

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    6You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.

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    15Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; do not spoil his resting place.

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

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

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

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