Psalms 5:9

World English Bible (2000)

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

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  • Rom 3:13 : 13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
  • Ps 62:4 : 4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don't know it."
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
  • Jer 9:3-6 : 3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh. 4 Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
  • Ps 58:2-3 : 2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 Please don't let me respect any man's person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man. 22 For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.
  • Ps 12:2-3 : 2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. 3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,
  • Ps 36:1-4 : 1 An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes." 2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin. 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. 4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
  • Ps 64:6 : 6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
  • Ps 111:1-3 : 1 Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation. 2 Yahweh's works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them. 3 His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.
  • Prov 29:5 : 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
  • Luke 11:39 : 39 The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
  • Rom 1:29-31 : 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
  • 1 Thess 2:5 : 5 For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

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  • Rom 3:13-15
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    13 "Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

    14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

    15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • Jer 9:3-6
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    3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

    4 Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

    5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

    6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2 Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

    3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

  • Ps 5:10
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    10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • Ps 109:2
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    2 for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Ps 78:36
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    36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

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

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

    9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

  • Prov 26:28
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    28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

  • Job 15:5
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    5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

  • Ps 144:8
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    8 whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

    4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Prov 8:7
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    7 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • Ps 5:6
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    6 You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20 For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 52:4
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    4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 140:9
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    9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • Prov 26:24-26
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    24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

    25 When his speech is charming, don't believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart.

    26 His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

  • Ps 17:10
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    10 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • Job 20:12
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    12 "Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

  • Ps 120:3
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    3 What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

  • Prov 17:4
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    4 An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • Prov 10:31
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    31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Ps 58:4
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    4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,