Psalms 58:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The way of the just is uprightness; You, most upright, weigh the path of the just.
  • Isa 59:4-6 : 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper. 6 Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
  • Jer 22:16-17 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? says the LORD. 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 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.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O leaders of Jacob, and you rulers of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know justice? 2 Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us. 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 And now we call the proud blessed; yes, those who do wickedness are raised up; yes, those who test God go free.
  • John 11:47-53 : 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, What shall we do? for this man does many miracles. 48 If we let him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation. 49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all, 50 Nor do you consider that it is better for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish. 51 Now this he did not say on his own authority: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation; 52 And not for that nation only, but also that he would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad. 53 Then from that day on, they plotted to put him to death.
  • Eccl 3:16 : 16 Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.

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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

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    1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

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

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    6Their webs will not become garments, nor will 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 hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Prov 6:18
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    18A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

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

  • Ps 64:6
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    6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search; the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

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    3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • Ps 28:3-4
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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.

    4Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors; give them after the work of their hands; render to them their due.

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

  • 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?

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

  • Job 6:27
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    27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

  • Isa 57:4-5
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    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out the tongue? Are you not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

    5Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?

  • Isa 59:13
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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.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Who devise mischiefs in their hearts; continually they gather together for war.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Rom 3:15
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    15'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

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    7You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

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    19You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

  • Job 36:17
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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

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    14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents.

  • Prov 11:18
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    18The wicked works a deceitful work, but he who sows righteousness shall have a sure reward.

  • Eccl 8:11
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    11Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

  • Isa 3:9
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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.

  • Ps 7:14
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    14Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Ezek 22:13
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    13Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

  • Isa 58:4
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    4Behold, you fast for strife and debate and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high.

  • Hos 10:13
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    13You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

  • Ps 52:2-3
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    2Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.

  • Job 10:3
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    3Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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

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    15Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness until You find none.

  • Isa 1:15
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    15And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Hos 6:8
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    8Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and it is polluted with blood.

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    3You who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence;

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