Psalms 58:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

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  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Is a throne of mischief joined `with' Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Wo `to' those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.
  • Isa 26:7 : 7 The path for the righteous `is' uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.
  • Isa 59:4-6 : 4 There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity. 5 Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper. 6 Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works `are' works of iniquity, And a deed of violence `is' in their hands.
  • Jer 22:16-17 : 16 He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then `it is' well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah. 17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.
  • Ezek 22:12 : 12 A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!
  • Ezek 22:27 : 27 Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.
  • Mic 3:1-3 : 1 And I say, `Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment? 2 Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones, 3 And who have eaten the flesh of My people, And their skin from off them have stript, And their bones they have broken, And they have spread `them' out as in a pot, And as flesh in the midst of a caldron.
  • Mic 3:9-9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert. 10 Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.' 12 Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house `is' for high places of a forest!
  • Mal 3:15 : 15 And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'
  • John 11:47-53 : 47 the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs? 48 if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.' 49 and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything, 50 nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.' 51 And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one. 53 From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;
  • Eccl 3:16 : 16 And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment -- there `is' the wicked; and the place of righteousness -- there `is' the wicked.
  • Ps 21:11 : 11 For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

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    1To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

    4There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

  • Mic 2:1-2
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    1Wo `to' those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

    2And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Isa 59:6-7
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    6Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works `are' works of iniquity, And a deed of violence `is' in their hands.

    7Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.

  • Prov 6:18
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    18A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil --

  • Ps 26:10
    74%

    10In whose hand `is' a wicked device, And their right hand `is' full of bribes.

  • Ps 64:6
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    6They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart `are' deep.

  • Ps 58:3
    73%

    3The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

  • Jer 22:17
    73%

    17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

  • Ps 28:3-4
    2 verses
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    3Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

    4Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them.

  • Prov 1:16
    73%

    16For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

  • Mic 6:10-12
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    10Are there yet `in' the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

    11Do I reckon `it' pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

    12Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue `is' deceitful in their mouth.

  • Job 6:27
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    27Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

  • Isa 57:4-5
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    73%

    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?

    5Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.

  • Isa 59:13
    72%

    13Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

  • Ps 140:2
    72%

    2Who have devised evils in the heart, All the day they assemble `for' wars.

  • Jer 4:18
    72%

    18Thy way and thy doings have done these to thee, This `is' thy vexation, for `it is' bitter, For it hath struck unto thy heart.

  • Hos 4:2
    72%

    2Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

  • Rom 3:15
    72%

    15Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

  • Amos 5:7
    72%

    7Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

  • Ps 50:19
    72%

    19Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

  • Job 36:17
    72%

    17And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

  • Job 11:14
    72%

    14If iniquity `is' in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

  • Prov 11:18
    72%

    18The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.

  • Eccl 8:11
    71%

    11Because sentence hath not been done `on' an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

  • Isa 3:9
    71%

    9The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

  • Ps 7:14
    71%

    14Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

  • Prov 24:2
    71%

    2For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.

  • Ezek 22:13
    71%

    13And lo, I have smitten My hand, Because of thy dishonest gain that thou hast gained, And for thy blood that hath been in thy midst.

  • Isa 58:4
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    4Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as `to'-day, To sound in the high place your voice.

  • Hos 10:13
    71%

    13Ye have ploughed wickedness, Perversity ye have reaped, Ye have eaten the fruit of lying, For thou hast trusted in thy way, In the abundance of thy might.

  • Job 15:35
    71%

    35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.

  • Ps 52:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

    3Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

  • Job 10:3
    71%

    3Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

  • Matt 15:19
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    19for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

  • Ps 10:15
    71%

    15Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

  • Isa 1:15
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    15And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

  • Hos 6:8
    71%

    8Gilead `is' a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

  • Amos 6:3
    71%

    3Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

  • Ps 144:8
    71%

    8Because their mouth hath spoken vanity, And their right hand `is' a right hand of falsehood.