Psalms 58:2

World English Bible (2000)

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
  • Isa 59:4-6 : 4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper. 6 Their 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.
  • Jer 22:16-17 : 16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me? says Yahweh. 17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice? 2 You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, "Isn't Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us." 12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'
  • John 11:47-53 : 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs. 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish." 51 Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
  • Eccl 3:16 : 16 Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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    1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

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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.

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  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

    2 They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

  • Isa 59:6-7
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    6 Their 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.

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

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

  • Ps 26:10
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    10 in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

  • Ps 64:6
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    6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

  • Ps 58:3
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    3 The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • Ps 28:3-4
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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.

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  • Prov 1:16
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    16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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

    11 Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

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

  • Job 6:27
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    27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.

  • Isa 57:4-5
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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,

    5 you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

  • Isa 59:13
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    13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18 "Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

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

  • Amos 5:7
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    7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

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    19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

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    17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

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    14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

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    18 Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Isa 58:4
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    4 Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

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

  • Job 15:35
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    35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

  • Ps 52:2-3
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    2 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

  • Job 10:3
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    3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • Matt 15:19
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    19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

  • Ps 10:15
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    15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

  • Isa 1:15
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    15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

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

  • Hos 6:8
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    8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

  • Amos 6:3
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    3 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

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