Psalms 55:11
Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.
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- Jer 5:26-27 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men. 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.
- Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
- Ps 109:2-3 : 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. 3 They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
- Isa 59:7 : 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.
- Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
- Jer 9:3-5 : 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 you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you 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.
- Ezek 22:1-9 : 1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations. 3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her! 4 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries. 5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult. 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. 7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. 8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths. 9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness. 10 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity. 11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter. 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.
- Matt 26:4 : 4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, 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 you do. 52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
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9 Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
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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.
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1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.
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7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
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21 How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.
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10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.
11 By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, But it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
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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.
14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.
15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.
- Jer 9:5-62 verses75%
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.
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12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
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26 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.
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16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.
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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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1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
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11 There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
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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.
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27 Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
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12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
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3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
5 Yahweh, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn't fail, but the unjust know no shame.
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20 Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
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15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
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12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.
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3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
- Jer 5:10-112 verses73%
10 Go up on her walls, and destroy; but don't make a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says Yahweh.
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2 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
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12 For it was not an enemy who insulted me, Then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, Then I would have hid myself from him.
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11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them.
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8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
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15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
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7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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12 For I know how many your offenses, And how great are your sins-- You who afflict the just, Who take a bribe, And who turn aside the needy in the courts.
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6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled the streets of it with the slain.
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8 The wicked walk on every side, When what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
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15 Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:
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10 Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, Because of uncleanness that destroys, Even with a grievous destruction.
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15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
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15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.
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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.
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8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; It is stained with blood.