Psalms 59:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

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  • Prov 12:13 : 13 In transgression of the lips `is' the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.
  • Prov 18:7 : 7 The mouth of a fool `is' ruin to him, And his lips `are' the snare of his soul.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; 37 for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'
  • Ps 10:2 : 2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
  • Ps 10:7 : 7 Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,
  • Ps 120:3-4 : 3 What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue! 4 Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.
  • Ps 140:9-9 : 9 The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them. 10 They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not.
  • Prov 6:2 : 2 Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,
  • Prov 11:6 : 6 The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured.
  • Ps 64:7-8 : 7 And God doth shoot them `with' an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds, 8 And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
  • Ps 79:12 : 12 And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.
  • Ps 109:17-18 : 17 And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him. 18 And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 and all the people answering said, `His blood `is' upon us, and upon our children!'
  • Matt 27:63 : 63 saying, `Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise;
  • Luke 23:5 : 5 and they were the more urgent, saying -- `He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'
  • Zeph 3:11 : 11 In that day thou art not ashamed because of any of thine actions, Wherewith thou hast transgressed against Me, For then do I turn aside from thy midst The exulting ones of thine excellency, And thou dost add no more to be haughty, In My holy mountain.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 140:9-10
    2 verses
    81%

    9The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.

    10They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not.

  • 13Consume in fury, consume and they are not, And they know that God is ruling in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    79%

    8They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

    9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For there is no stability in their mouth. Their heart `is' mischiefs, An open grave `is' their throat, Their tongue they make smooth.

    10Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because they have rebelled against Thee.

  • 7Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords `are' in their lips, for `Who heareth?'

  • 18Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

  • Rom 3:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13A sepulchre opened `is' their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps `is' under their lips.

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

  • 11Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.

  • Ps 12:2-4
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    78%

    2Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

    3Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

    4Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips `are' our own; who `is' lord over us?'

  • 4Only -- from his excellency They have consulted to drive away, They enjoy a lie, with their mouth they bless, And with their heart revile. Selah.

  • 7Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,

  • 3They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.

  • 8And they cause him to stumble, Against them `is' their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

  • Ps 17:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

    11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • 2For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me -- A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred!

  • 3And they bend their tongue, their bow `is' a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

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

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

  • 5For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

  • 23And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me `is' for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!

  • 24Pour upon them Thine indignation, And the fierceness of Thine anger doth seize them.

  • 20Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity `are' Thine enemies.

  • 6O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

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

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

  • 3Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

  • 6The exaltation of God `is' in their throat, And a two-edged sword in their hand.

  • 11And the king doth rejoice in God, Boast himself doth every one swearing by Him, But stopped is the mouth of those speaking lies!

  • 25They do not say in their heart, `Aha, our desire.' They do not say, `We swallowed him up.'

  • 65Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them.

  • 22Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence -- for a trap.

  • 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?

  • 3For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.

  • 27Give punishment for their iniquity, And they enter not into Thy righteousness.

  • 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.

  • 15They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

  • 8The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

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

  • 8Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

  • 15Desolations `are' upon them, They go down `to' Sheol -- alive, For wickedness `is' in their dwelling, in their midst.

  • 3What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

  • 8A slaughtering arrow `is' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

  • 2Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.