Psalms 73:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Rev 13:6 : 6 He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
  • Exod 5:2 : 2 Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."
  • 2 Chr 32:15 : 15 Now therefore don't let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, neither believe him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?"
  • Job 21:14 : 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
  • Ps 52:4 : 4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
  • Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
  • Dan 7:25 : 25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
  • Luke 18:4 : 4 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

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  • Ps 73:6-8
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    6Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

    7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

    8They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

  • 12For 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • 3They 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.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

    10Hold 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.

  • 2for 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 73:10-11
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    10Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

    11They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

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

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

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

  • 3who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

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

  • 8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

  • 4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

  • 9The 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.

  • 4Against 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,

  • 8Their 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.

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    2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

  • 5They 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.

  • Ps 12:2-4
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    72%

    2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

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

    4who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"

  • 17They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

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

  • 18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

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

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

  • 10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • 13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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

  • 20For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

  • 18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

  • 24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

  • 10Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

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

  • 7They have hands, but they don't feel. They have feet, but they don't walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

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

  • 3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

  • 9You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

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

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