Psalms 55:11
Hebrew Text— Psalms 55:11Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
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“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”
“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”
for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.
who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,
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.
They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.
Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
For 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.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.
a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
It was so, when they came into the middle of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and cast them into the middle of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.
Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”
Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”
yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.
The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.
He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor desolation or destruction within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city, and on its inhabitants; for in truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”
It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’
“ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.
I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.